World Wide Web  − 1 January, 1990 - 31 December, 1994

1990:

ARPANET ceased to exist

First dial-up access to Internet offered

1991:

Gopher Gopher was a document retrieval protocol developed at the University of Minnesota. “Gopher is defined in RFC 1436. The protocol is like a primitive form of HTTP (which came later). Gopher lacks the MIME features of HTTP, but expressed the equivalent of a document's MIME type with a one-character code for the “Gopher object type.” http://dict.die.net/gopher/

1992:

Veronica (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives) Veronica, released by University of Nevada, searches documents across all Gopher servers. http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9301d&L=pacs-l&P=888

1993:

InterNIC created by NSF (National Science Foundation) to provide directory and database services, registration and information services http://www.internic.net/

US National Information Infrastructure Act

Mosaic Mosaic was a free browser allowed users to move through the WWW through hyperlinks. The homepage kept a “window history,” list of pages visited, provided navigational buttons, back, forward and home. http://cxc.harvard.edu/newsletters/news_02/subsection3_11_2.html

1994:

WWW most popular Internet service, telnet second

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) founded to develop web standards. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/

http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/timeline/

Marian Smith Fall 2007