The internet

The Internet in the 90's

By Grace McNally
  • WWW

    WWW

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

    Gopher

    Gopher was released, a popular, easy to use interface
  • Mosaic

    Mosaic

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

    Fees

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

    Netscape Navigator

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

    Users

    1995 the growing population of internet users reached 16 million, and kept growing.
  • Telecommunications Reform Act

    Telecommunications Reform Act

    The US government passed the Communications Decency Act (Telecommuncations Reform Act).
  • Cyber Space Decleration of Independence

    Cyber Space Decleration of Independence

    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the US government was taking away the freedom of the people with the Communications Decency Act, causing the law to be repealed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

    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

    Google

    Google Inc. was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin