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In 1980-81, two other networking projects, BITNET and CSNET, were initiated.
Starting in the early 1980’s and continuing to this day, the Internet grew beyond its primarily research roots to include both a broad user community and increased commercial activity.
By 1981, the number of hosts had grown to 213, with a new host being added approximately every twenty days.
The associated standards for IPv4 were published by 1981 as RFCs 791, 792 and 793, and adopted for use.
In 1981 NSF supported the development of the Computer Science Network (CSNET). CSNET connected with ARPANET using TCP/IP, and ran TCP/IP over X.25, but it also supported departments without sophisticated network connections, using automated dial-up mail exchange.
At its official 1983 launch, the Internet had been a modest experimental network of networks owned by the United States government.
The Internet Activities Board (IAB) was created in 1983 to guide the evolution of the TCP/IP Protocol Suite and to provide research advice to the Internet community.
In 1983, when Barry Leiner took over management of the Internet research program at DARPA, he and Clark recognized that the continuing growth of the Internet community demanded a restructuring of the coordination mechanisms.
In 1985–86 NSF funded the first five supercomputing centres—at Princeton University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of California, San Diego, the University of Illinois, and Cornell University.
In 1985, Dennis Jennings came from Ireland to spend a year at NSF leading the NSFNET program.
Also in 1985, both Kahn and Leiner left DARPA and there was a significant decrease in Internet activity at DARPA. As a result, the IAB was left without a primary sponsor and increasingly assumed the mantle of leadership.
In 1985, recognizing this lack of information availability and appropriate training, Dan Lynch in cooperation with the IAB arranged to hold a three day workshop for ALL vendors to come learn about how TCP/IP worked and what it still could not do well.
Electronic mail was being used broadly across several communities, often with different systems, but interconnection between different mail systems was demonstrating the utility of broad based electronic communications between people. Thus, by 1985, Internet was already well established as a technology supporting a broad community of researchers and developers, and was beginning to be used by other communities for daily computer communications.
Usenet is the first; though mostly for geeks its discussion groups are quite popular and it gets ported to run over the Internet by 1986.
In 1987 it became clear that a protocol was needed that would permit the elements of the network, such as the routers, to be remotely managed in a uniform way.
In September of 1988 the first Interop trade show was born.
NSFNET was upgraded to 1.5 Mbit/s in 1988 under a cooperative agreement with the Merit Network in partnership with IBM, MCI, and the State of Michigan.
These new commercial capabilities accelerated the growth of the Internet, which as early as 1988 had already been growing at the rate of 100 percent per year.
At the world’s biggest physics laboratory, CERN in Switzerland, English programmer and physicist Tim Berners-Lee submits two proposals for what will become the Web, starting in March of 1989.
AARNet was formed in 1989 by the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee and provided a dedicated IP based network for Australia.
In 1989, Australian universities joined the push towards using IP protocols to unify their networking infrastructures.
During the course of its evolution, particularly after 1989, the Internet system began to integrate support for other protocol suites into its basic networking fabric.
10 The decommissioning of the ARPANET was commemorated on its 20th anniversary by a UCLA symposium in 1989.
The ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990.
DEC and Xerox will also begin commercializing their own proprietary networks, DECNET and XNS. At it’s peak around 1990, IBM’s SNA will quietly carry most of the world's networking traffic.
First Web browser-editor, 1990
When it is funded in 1991, the Act creates the National Information Infrastructure, which promotes and funds over $600 million worth of various networking initiatives.
Later, in 1992, RIPE was formally registered as a cooperative in Amsterdam.
By 1992 the Internet will have emerged as the new global standard, linking a million computers.
In 1993 federal legislation allowed NSF to open the NSFNET backbone to commercial users.
By 1993, the gopher developers are planning to add hyperlinks and even virtual reality features.
But with Gopher, the Web also gets a major lucky break: the University of Minnesota begins charging for Gopher server licenses in 1993, literally the same spring the Web becomes officially public domain – and free.
In 1994, Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT) founds the CommerceNet consortium to encourage Web commerce, and demonstrates secure credit-card transactions that same year.
Also in 1994, Vice-President Al Gore supports a prominent White House Web site, as well as encouraging funding of W3C in the United States
In 1994, a National Research Council report, again chaired by Kleinrock (and with Kahn and Clark as members again), Entitled “Realizing The Information Future: The Internet and Beyond” was released.
The first businesses to earn substantial profits on the Web are pornography and gambling sites, by 1995.
But by 1995 the Web is growing quickly, and Microsoft CEO Bill Gates decides it is better to fight within the Web than to fight the Web itself.
At the end of 1996, the 36 million Web users surpass the 30 million or so on France’s Minitel, until now the most popular online system.
Jon Postel served as Director of the Computer Networks Division of the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California until his untimely death October 16, 1998.
Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo creates the i-mode networking standard for mobile data in 1999.
In 1999, the growing IEEE 802.11b short-range radio networking standard is rebranded “Wi-Fi” by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Blogger, launched in 1999
In early 2000, business fundamentals reassert themselves.
By 2002, over 34 million subscribers are using it on their phones for web access, e-mail, mobile payments, streaming video, and many other features that the rest of the world won't see for nearly another decade.
In 2004, Google is the first major Web company to float a publicly traded stock since the go-go days of the dot-com boom.
Morris will be the first person convicted under the “Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.” He will apologize in 2008, saying he'd sought to estimate the Internet's size, not cause harm.
By 2020, approximately 4.5 billion people, or more than half of the world’s population, were estimated to have access to the Internet.
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Services Limited | 1974 | $580,000 | 10 | 22 |
| Universal Weather and Aviation | 1959 | $252.2M | 700 | 51 |
| Configurations | - | $1.6M | 12 | - |
| Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (sgt) | 1988 | $17.0M | 125 | - |
| ArcBest | 1923 | $4.2B | 13,000 | 190 |
| CSSI | 1990 | $680,000 | 50 | 7 |
| StormGeo | 1996 | $9.6M | 550 | - |
| El Paso Corporation | 1928 | - | 525 | 8 |
| Port of Seattle | 1911 | $76.0M | 2,150 | 45 |
| Bristow Group | 1955 | $1.4B | 693 | 19 |
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