Intrenet Inc history

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.

In 1985, there were about 1,000 computers (hosts) on ARPANET, and while ARPANET was originally created for military use; science, research and social computing were by far becoming more popular on the network.

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.

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.

10 The decommissioning of the ARPANET was commemorated on its 20th anniversary by a UCLA symposium in 1989.

Firefox was originally a graphic web browser developed in the early 1990’s by the Mozilla Corporation, however today, it is one of the fastest growing open source browsers on the web.

During the first few years of the 1990’s, online dating was relegated to AOL or other services that employed chat, however, within the mid to late 90’s web sites started to be created with the sole purpose of finding a mate.

Before the Internet became popular in the mid 1990’s, most people either had to shop in a brick or mortar store or purchase items from home through a catalogue.

By 1993, Windows 3.0 and its subsequent versions were selling at a rate of one million copies per month, and nearly 90 percent of the world’s PCs ran on a Microsoft operating system.

The World Wide truly reached critical mass when the first modern web browser Mosaic was released in 1993.

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.

In response, Netscape accused Microsoft of violating its 1995 consent decree and sued; those efforts helped to persuade the Justice Department to reopen a broad investigation of Microsoft.

As Yahoo! expanded from a directory and search engine to a major portal on the web, Google, which started out as a research project in 1996 aimed at making web search more effective.

In 2001 Microsoft released the Xbox, an electronic game console that quickly captured second place in the video gaming market.

In 2001, Wall Street started to experience the beginning of the Dotcom Bubble and the subsequent collapse of technology stock prices began.

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The company’s legal woes continued in 2004: the European Union (EU) levied the largest fine in the organization’s history to that point, €497.2 million ($611 million), in retaliation for what were described as Microsoft’s near-monopoly practices.

Started in 2005, Youtube makes it incredibly easy to upload, download and share video with others.

In 2011 Microsoft bought the Internet voice communication company Skype for $8.5 billion, which at that time was the largest acquisition in Microsoft’s history.

In 2012 it introduced Surface, a line of hybrid tablet computers with hardware designed by Microsoft itself, a first for the company.