The Internet in the 90's

WWW

Aug 6, 1991

The World Wide We was released by Tim Berners-Lee, making the internet more popular

Gopher

Sep 18, 1991

Gopher was released, a popular, easy to use interface

Mosaic

Nov 10, 1993

Mosaic came out, invented by Marc Andreessen but wasn't yet very popular.

Fees

Jan 1, 1994

Gopher started charging licensing fees to use their website, causing the free to use, Mosaic, to become popular.

Netscape Navigator

Oct 17, 1994

Netscape Navigator 0.9 (by Marc Andreessen) was produced, becoming the new, more popular, browser.

Users

Jan 1, 1995

1995 the growing population of internet users reached 16 million, and kept growing.

Telecommunications Reform Act

Feb 8, 1996

The US government passed the Communications Decency Act (Telecommuncations Reform Act).

Cyber Space Decleration of Independence

Mar 20, 1996

John Barlow wrote a persuasive essay on how the US government was taking away the freedom of the people with the Communications Decency Act, causing the law to be repealed

Internet Explorer

Aug 1, 1996

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0, which matched Netscape Navigator feature to feature, and eventually becoming more popular throughout the 90's and early 2000's

Google

Sep 4, 1998

Google Inc. was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin