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Windows 95
Microsofts windows 95 was realesed but was later suceeded by windows 98 in 1998 -
Tv.com
The domain name tv.cmo was sold for 15,000 dollars. The domain wars begin -
Buisness.com
Buisness.com sells for $150,000. Microsoft and Netscape are the tow biggest players in the domain wars -
Google begins
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998 -
Browers war
This year Aol buys Netscape. The Browsers war is declared over because Netscape and Microsoft own close to 100% of the domains -
Mass Deinal
A large-scale denial of service attack is launched against some major Web sites like Yahoo!, alerting Web sites to the need for tighter security measures. 10,000,000 domain names have been registered. -
double the domains
There are 20,000,000 websites on the Internet, numbers doubling since February 2000. -
Viruses
The Code Red worm and Sircam virus infiltrate thousands of web servers and email accounts, respectively, causing a spike in Internet bandwidth usage and security breaches. -
Population
this year, Internet global population reach 428 million -
RIAA
e RIAA sues 261 individuals for allegedly distributing copyright music files over peer-to-peer networks -
DOOM!
this year the virus mydoom! worm is annoucned as the worlds worst virus -
YouTube!
This year youtube is launched