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1996

In 1996, Congress passes the Communications Decency Act in an effort to combat the growing amount of objectionable material on the internet.

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.

1997

1997 • The phrase “the Great Firewall of China” first appears in a Wired article in reference to the Chinese government’s desire to control internet access.

1998

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.

Google is founded in 1998.

1998 • Netscape releases the source code of its browser suite, creating the Mozilla project and inspiring the open-source software movement.

1999

In 1999, the music and video piracy controversy intensifies with the launch of Napster.

The first internet virus capable of copying and sending itself to a user’s address book is discovered in 1999.

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.

2000

2000 • The dot-com bubble begins to pop.

But by 2000, the capital supporting the bubble was drying up and publicly traded dotcoms started folding.

In early 2000, business fundamentals reassert themselves.

2001

2001 • BitTorrent, a decentralized communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing, is released.

2002

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.

2004

2004 • Facebook is created, signaling a new era of social media on the internet.

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.

2006

2006 • Amazon Web Services begins marketing IT infrastructure to businesses, and the term “cloud computing” gains traction, referring to the storage and processing of data and applications on remote (and typically proprietary) servers.

2007

2007 • Apple introduces the iPhone, which will quickly evolve into a dominant platform of the mobile web.

2008

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.

2009

2009 • Satoshi Nakamoto launches the Bitcoin network, a digital cash system on a decentralized, cryptographically-secure peer-to-peer protocol — the first blockchain.

2010

2010 • The Federal Communications Commission asserts the principles of net neutrality and an open internet, holding that internet service providers (ISPs) must offer equal access to all internet communications without favoring particular sites or services.

2014

He took his first assignment about bitcoin and digital currencies in 2014, and has been writing about emerging decentralized technologies ever since.

2015

2015 • The Ethereum Virtual Machine, an open-source, blockchain computing platform, launches.

2016

2016 • The DFINITY Foundation is founded in Zurich to build the Internet Computer, an extension of the public internet that combines blockchain technology and novel cryptography to create a decentralized environment for interoperable software that runs directly on the open network.

2022

Jun 23, 2022 The ANSI/TIA 568 Series of Specifications: What is Most important to Know for Copper

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