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This permits an explosion of connections, particularly from universities. NSF-funded SDSCNET, JVNCNET, SURANET, and NYSERNET operational (:sw1:) Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) comes into existence below the IAB. First IETF meeting held in January at Linkabit in San Diego The primary Freenet (Cleveland) comes on-line 16 July under the auspices of the Society for Public Access Computing (SoPAC). Later Freenet program management assumed by the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN) in 1989 (:sk2,rab:) Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) designed to reinforce Usenet information performance over TCP/IP. Mail Exchanger (MX) records developed by Craig Partridge permit non-IP network hosts to have domain addresses. The first in a collection of congestion collapses begin occurring in October. (:jtl:) The great USENET title change; moderated newsgroups modified in 1987. BARRNET (Bay Area Regional Research Network) established using excessive velocity links. Operational in 1987. New England will get lower off from the web as AT&T suffers a fiber optics cable break between Newark/NJ and White Plains/NY. Yes, all seven New England ARPANET trunk strains had been within the one severed cable. Outage occurred between 1:11 and 12:11 EST on 12 December .fi is registered by members of the Finnish Unix User Group (FUUG) in Tampere (12 Dec) 1987 NSF indicators a cooperative agreement to manage the NSFNET backbone with Merit Network, Inc. (IBM and MCI involvement was by an settlement with Merit). Merit, IBM, and MCI later based ANS. UUNET is based with Usenix funds to provide business UUCP and Usenet access. Originally an experiment by Rick Adams and Mike O'Dell First TCP/IP Interoperability Conference (March), title changed in 1988 to INTEROP Email link established between Germany and China using CSNET protocols, with the first message from China despatched on 20 September. (:wz1:) The idea and plan for a nationwide US analysis and schooling community is proposed by Gordon Bell et al in a report back to the Office of Science and Technology, written in response to a congressional request by Al Gore. (Nov) It will take 4 years till the establishment of this community by Congress (:gb1:) 1000th RFC: "Request For Comments reference information" Number of hosts breaks 10,000 Variety of BITNET hosts breaks 1,000 1988 2 November - Internet worm burrows by means of the web, affecting ~6,000 of the 60,000 hosts on the web (:ph1:) CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) formed by DARPA in response to the needs exhibited through the Morris worm incident. The worm is the only advisory issued this yr. DoD chooses to undertake OSI and sees use of TCP/IP as an interim. US Government OSI Profile (GOSIP) defines the set of protocols to be supported by Government purchased products (:gck:) Los Nettos community created with no federal funding, as an alternative supported by regional members (founding: Caltech, TIS, UCLA, USC, ISI). NSFNET spine upgraded to T1 (1.544Mbps) CERFnet (California Education and Research Federation community) founded by Susan Estrada. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) established in December with Jon Postel as its Director. Postel was also the RFC Editor and US Domain registrar for a few years. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) developed by Jarkko Oikarinen (:zby:) First Canadian regionals be a part of NSFNET: ONet through Cornell, RISQ via Princeton, BCnet through Univ of Washington (:ec1:) FidoNet gets connected to the online, enabling the trade of e-mail and news (:tp1:) The first multicast tunnel is established between Stanford and BBN within the Summer of 1988. Countries connecting to NSFNET: Canada (CA), Denmark (DK), France (FR), Iceland (IS), Norway (NO), Sweden (SE) 1989 Number of hosts breaks 100,000 RIPE (Reseaux IP Europeens) formed (by European service suppliers) to ensure the required administrative and technical coordination to permit the operation of the pan-European IP Network. (:glg:) First relays between a business digital mail provider and the Internet: MCI Mail by the Corporation for the National Research Initiative (CNRI), and CompuServe through Ohio State Univ (:jg1,ph1:) Corporation for Research and Education Networking (CREN) is formed by merging CSNET into BITNET (August) AARNET - Australian Academic Research Network - arrange by AVCC and CSIRO; introduced into service the next year (:gmc:) First hyperlink between Australia and NSFNET via Hawaii on 23 June. Australia had been limited to USENET entry since the early 1980s Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll tells the actual-life tale of a German cracker group who infiltrated quite a few US amenities UCLA sponsors the Act One symposium to celebrate ARPANET's 20th anniversary and its decommissioning (August) RFC 1121: Act One - The Poems RFC 1097: TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE Option Countries connecting to NSFNET: Australia (AU), Germany (DE), Israel (IL), Italy (IT), Japan (JP), Mexico (MX), Netherlands (NL), New Zealand (NZ), Puerto Rico (PR), United Kingdom (UK) nineties

1990 ARPANET ceases to exist Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is founded by Mitch Kapor Archie launched by Peter Deutsch, Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan at McGill Hytelnet launched by Peter Scott (Univ of Saskatchewan) The World comes on-line (world.std.com), changing into the first commercial provider of Internet dial-up access ISO Development Environment (ISODE) developed to supply an approach for OSI migration for the DoD. ISODE software program permits OSI utility to function over TCP/IP (:gck:) CA*web formed by 10 regional networks as nationwide Canadian spine with direct connection to NSFNET (:ec1:) The primary remotely operated machine to be hooked up to the Internet, the Internet Toaster by John Romkey, (controlled via SNMP) makes its debut at Interop. Czechoslovakia (.cs) connects to EARN/BitNet (11 Oct); .cs deleted in 1993 RFC 1149: A standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers. Implementation is accomplished 11 years later by the Bergen Linux Users Group (28 Apr 2001) RFC 1178: Choosing a name in your Computer Countries connecting to NSFNET: Argentina (AR), Austria (AT), Belgium (BE), Brazil (BR), Chile (CL), Greece (GR), India (IN), Ireland (IE), Korea (KR), Spain (ES), Switzerland (CH) 1991 First connection takes place between Brazil, by Fapesp, and the Internet at 9600 baud. Commercial Internet trade (CIX) Association, Inc. formed by General Atomics (CERFnet), Performance Systems International, Inc. (PSInet), and UUNET Technologies, Inc. (AlterNet), as NSF lifts restrictions on the industrial use of the web (March) (:glg:) Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS), invented by Brewster Kahle, launched by Thinking Machines Corporation Gopher released by Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill from the Univ of Minnesota World-Wide Web (WWW) launched by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer (:pb1:). First Web server is nxoc01.cern.ch, launched in Nov 1990 and later renamed info.cern.ch. PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) released by Philip Zimmerman (:ad1:) US High Performance Computing Act (Gore 1) establishes the National Research and Education Network (NREN) NSFNET spine upgraded to T3 (44.736Mbps) NSFNET traffic passes 1 trillion bytes/month and 10 billion packets/month Defense Data Network NIC contract awarded by DISA to Government Systems Inc. who takes over from SRI on 1 Oct Start of JANET IP Service (JIPS) which signaled the changeover from Coloured Book software to TCP/IP within the UK tutorial network. IP was initially 'tunneled' inside X.25. (:gst:) RFC 1216: Gigabit Network Economics and Paradigm Shifts RFC 1217: Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR) Countries connecting to NSFNET: Croatia (HR), Hong Kong (HK), Hungary (HU), Poland (PL), Portugal (PT), Singapore (SG), South Africa (ZA), Taiwan (TW), Tunisia (TN) 1992 Internet Society (ISOC) is chartered beneath CNRI (January); incorporation befell in December IAB reconstituted because the Internet Architecture Board and becomes a part of the Internet Society Variety of hosts breaks 1,000,000 First MBONE audio multicast (March) and video multicast (November) RIPE Network Coordination Center (NCC) created in April to provide tackle registration and coordination providers to the European Internet group (:dk1:) Veronica, a gopherspace search device, is launched by Univ of Nevada World Bank comes on-line The time period "surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly (:jap:); Brendan Kehoe makes use of the term "web-surfing" as early as 6 June 1991 in a USENET submit (:bt1:) Zen and the Art of the Internet is published by Brendan Kehoe (:jap:) Internet Hunt started by Rick Gates RFC 1300: Remembrances of Things Past RFC 1313: Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 - Internet Talk Radio Countries connecting to NSFNET: Antarctica (AQ), Cameroon (CM), Cyprus (CY), Ecuador (EC), Estonia (EE), Kuwait (KW), Latvia (LV), Luxembourg (LU), Malaysia (MY), Slovenia (SI), Thailand (TH), Venezuela (VE) 1993 InterNIC created by NSF to provide particular Internet companies: (:sc1:) - listing and database services (AT&T) - registration companies (Network Solutions Inc.) - information providers (General Atomics/CERFnet) US White House e mail comes on-line at whitehouse.gov; web site launches in 1994 - President Bill Clinton: president@whitehouse.gov - Vice-President Al Gore: vice-president@whitehouse.gov Worms of a brand new form find their means round the net - WWW Worms (W4), joined by Spiders, Wanderers, Crawlers, and Snakes ... Internet Talk Radio begins broadcasting (:sk2:) United Nations (UN) comes on-line (:vgc:) US National Information Infrastructure Act Businesses and media begin taking discover of the Internet .sk (Slovakia) and .cz (Czech Republic) created after cut up of Czechoslovakia; .cs decomissioned InterCon International KK (IIKK) supplies Japan's first business Internet connection in September. TWICS, although an IIKK leased line, begins providing dial-up accounts the following month (:tb1:) Mosaic takes the Internet by storm (22 Apr); WWW proliferates at a 341,634% annual progress rate of service visitors. Gopher's development is 997%. RFC 1437: The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a brand new Medium RFC 1438: IETF Statements of Boredom (SOBs) Countries connecting to NSFNET: Bulgaria (BG), Costa Rica (CR), Egypt (EG), Fiji (FJ), Ghana (GH), Guam (GU), Indonesia (ID), Kazakhstan (KZ), Kenya (KE), Liechtenstein (LI), Peru (PE), Romania (RO), Russian Federation (RU), Turkey (TR), Ukraine (UA), UAE (AE), US Virgin Islands (VI) 1994 ARPANET/Internet celebrates twenty fifth anniversary Communities start to be wired up directly to the Internet (Lexington and Cambridge, Mass., USA) US Senate and House present info servers Shopping malls arrive on the web First cyberstation, RT-FM, broadcasts from Interop in Las Vegas The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) means that GOSIP should incorporate TCP/IP and drop the "OSI-solely" requirement (:gck:) Arizona regulation agency of Canter & Siegel "spams" the Internet with e-mail advertising green card lottery companies; Net citizens flame back NSFNET site visitors passes 10 trillion bytes/month Yes, it is true - you can now order pizza from the Hut on-line WWW edges out telnet to change into 2nd most popular service on the net (behind ftp-knowledge) based mostly on % of packets and bytes visitors distribution on NSFNET Japanese Prime Minister on-line (http://www.kantei.go.jp/) UK's HM Treasury on-line (http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/) New Zealand's Info Tech Prime Minister on-line (http://www.govt.nz/) First Virtual, the primary cyberbank, open up for business Radio stations begin rockin' (rebroadcasting) spherical the clock on the web: WXYC at Univ of NC, KJHK at Univ of KS-Lawrence, KUGS at Western WA Univ IPng really helpful by IETF at its Toronto assembly (July) and authorized by IESG in November. Later documented as RFC 1752 The primary banner advertisements seem on hotwired.com in October. They had been for Zima (a beverage) and AT&T Trans-European Research and Education Network Association (TERENA) is formed by the merger of Rare and EARN, with representatives from 38 countries as well as CERN and ECMWF. TERENA's aim is to "promote and take part in the event of a high quality international info and telecommunications infrastructure for the good thing about research and training" (October) After noticing that many community software vendors used area.com of their documentation examples, Bill Woodcock and Jon Postel register the area. Sure sufficient, after wanting at the area entry logs, it was evident that many users had been using the example domain in configuring their functions. The primary internet-based machine translation system is developed by this Timeline's creator, supporting 9 languages, and made obtainable the following year to a whole bunch of 1000's of users on OSIS and Intelink, each US government networks RFC 1605: SONET to Sonnet Translation RFC 1606: A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9 RFC 1607: A VIEW FROM THE twenty first CENTURY Countries connecting to NSFNET: Algeria (DZ), Armenia (AM), Bermuda (BM), Burkina Faso (BF), China (CN), Colombia (CO), Jamaica (JM), Jordan (JO), Lebanon (LB), Lithuania (LT), Macao (MO), Morocco (MA), New Caledonia (NC), Nicaragua (NI), Niger (NE), Panama (PA), Philippines (PH), Senegal (SN), Sri Lanka (LK), Swaziland (SZ), Uruguay (UY), Uzbekistan (UZ) Top 10 Domains by Host #: com, edu, uk, gov, de, ca, mil, au, org, net 1995 NSFNET reverts back to a research community. Main US backbone visitors now routed by means of interconnected community providers The new NSFNET is born as NSF establishes the very excessive velocity Backbone Network Service (vBNS) linking tremendous-computing centers: NCAR, NCSA, SDSC, CTC, PSC Neda Rayaneh Institute (NRI), Iran's first commercial supplier, comes on-line, connecting by way of satellite tv for pc to Cadvision, a Canadian provider (:rm1:) Hong Kong police disconnect all however one of the colony's Internet providers for failure to acquire a license; thousands of customers are left with out service (:kf2:) Sun launches JAVA on May 23 RealAudio, an audio streaming technology, lets the web hear in near real-time Radio HK, the first commercial 24 hr., Internet-solely radio station begins broadcasting WWW surpasses ftp-information in March because the service with biggest traffic on NSFNet based mostly on packet count, and in April primarily based on byte depend Traditional online dial-up methods (CompuServe, America Online, Prodigy) start to supply Internet entry Chris Lamprecht (aka "Minor Threat") becomes the primary particular person banned from accessing the Internet by a US District Court choose in Texas Thousands in Minneapolis-St. Paul (USA) lose Net access after transients begin a bonfire beneath a bridge at the Univ of MN causing fiber-optic cables to melt (30 July) Quite a lot of Net associated corporations go public, with Netscape leading the pack with the 3rd largest ever NASDAQ IPO share worth (9 August) Registration of domain names is no longer free. Beginning 14 September, a $50 annual fee has been imposed, which up till now was subsidized by NSF. NSF continues to pay for .edu registration, and on an interim basis for .gov The Vatican comes on-line (http://www.vatican.va/) The Canadian Government comes on-line (http://canada.gc.ca/) The first official Internet wiretap was profitable in serving to the key Service and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) apprehend three people who have been illegally manufacturing and selling cellular phone cloning gear and electronic gadgets Operation Home Front connects, for the first time, soldiers in the field with their families back house by way of the Internet. Richard White turns into the first particular person to be declared a munition, below the USA's arms export control laws, due to an RSA file security encryption program tattooed on his arm (:wired496:) RFC 1882: The 12-Days of Technology Before Christmas Country domains registered: Ethiopia (ET), Cote d'Ivoire (CI), Cook Islands (CK) Cayman Islands (KY), Anguilla (AI), Gibraltar (GI), Vatican (VA), Kiribati (KI), Kyrgyzstan (KG), Madagascar (MG), Mauritius (MU), Micronesia (FM), Monaco (MC), Mongolia (MN), Nepal (NP), Nigeria (NG), Western Samoa (WS), San Marino (SM), Tanzania (TZ), Tonga (TO), Uganda (UG), Vanuatu (VU) Top 10 Domains by Host #: com, edu, internet, gov, mil, org, de, uk, ca, au Technologies of the Year: WWW, Serps Emerging Technologies: Mobile code (JAVA, JAVAscript), Virtual environments (VRML), Collaborative tools Hacks of the Year: The Spot (Jun 12), Hackers Movie Page (12 Aug) 1996 Internet phones catch the attention of US telecommunication companies who ask the US Congress to ban the know-how (which has been around for years) Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, PLO Leader Yasser Arafat, and Phillipine President Fidel Ramos meet for ten minutes in a web based interactive chat session on 17 January. The controversial US Communications Decency Act (CDA) becomes regulation in the US to be able to prohibit distribution of indecent materials over the net. A number of months later a 3-choose panel imposes an injunction towards its enforcement. Supreme Court unanimously guidelines most of it unconstitutional in 1997. BackRub, Google's precursor, comes online 9,272 organizations find themselves unlisted after the InterNIC drops their name service on account of not having paid their area identify charge Various ISPs endure prolonged service outages, bringing into query whether they will be able to handle the rising number of users. AOL (19 hours), Netcom (13 hours), AT&T WorldNet (28 hours - e mail solely) Domain identify tv.com sold to CNET for US$15,000 New York's Public Access Networks Corp (PANIX) is shut down after repeated SYN attacks by a cracker utilizing strategies outlined in a hacker magazine (2600) MCI upgrades Internet backbone including ~13,000 ports, bringing the effective velocity from 155Mbps to 622Mbps. The Internet Ad Hoc Committee broadcasts plans to add 7 new generic Top Level Domains (gTLD): .firm, .retailer, .web, .arts, .rec, .info, .nom. The IAHC plan also calls for a competing group of domain registrars worldwide. A malicious cancelbot is released on USENET wiping out greater than 25,000 messages The WWW browser battle, fought primarily between Netscape and Microsoft, has rushed in a brand new age in software growth, whereby new releases are made quarterly with the help of Internet customers keen to test upcoming (beta) variations. Internet2 project is kicked off by representatives from 34 universities on 1 Oct (:msb:) RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths Restrictions on Internet use world wide: China: requires users and ISPs to register with the police Germany: cuts off access to some newsgroups carried on CompuServe Saudi Arabia: confines Internet entry to universities and hospitals Singapore: requires political and religious content material providers to register with the state New Zealand: classifies pc disks as "publications" that may be censored and seized supply: Human Rights Watch Country domains registered: Qatar (QA), Central African Republic (CF), Oman (OM), Norfolk Island (NF), Tuvalu (Tv), French Polynesia (PF), Syria (SY), Aruba (AW), Cambodia (KH), French Guiana (GF), Eritrea (ER), Cape Verde (CV), Burundi (BI), Benin (BJ) Bosnia-Herzegovina (BA), Andorra (Ad), Guadeloupe (GP), Guernsey (GG), Isle of Man (IM), Jersey (JE), Lao (LA), Maldives (MV), Marshall Islands (MH), Mauritania (MR), Northern Mariana Islands (MP), Rwanda (RW), Togo (TG), Yemen (YE), Zaire (ZR) Top 10 Domains by Host #: com, edu, web, uk, de, jp, us, mil, ca, au Hacks of the Year: US Dept of Justice (17 Aug), CIA (19 Sep), Air Force (29 Dec), UK Labour Party (6 Dec), NASA DDCSOL - USAFE - US Air Force (30 Dec) Technologies of the Year: Search engines like google, JAVA, Internet Phone Emerging Technologies: Virtual environments (VRML), Collaborative instruments, Internet equipment (Network Computer) 1997 2000th RFC: "Internet Official Protocol Standards" 71,618 mailing lists registered at Liszt, a mailing record directory The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is established to handle administration and registration of IP numbers to the geographical areas presently dealt with by Network Solutions (InterNIC), beginning March 1998. CA*net II launched in June to offer Canada's next generation Internet using ATM/SONET In protest of the DNS monopoly, AlterNIC's owner, Eugene Kashpureff, hacks DNS so customers going to www.internic.web end up at www.alternic.web Domain identify business.com offered for US$150,000 Early in the morning of 17 July, human error at Network Solutions causes the DNS table for .com and .internet domains to turn into corrupted, making millions of methods unreachable. Longest hostname registered with InterNIC: CHALLENGER.MED.SYNAPSE.UAH.UALBERTA.CA 101,803 Name Servers in whois database RFC 2100: The Naming of Hosts Country domains registered: Falkland Islands (FK), East Timor (TP), R of Congo (CG), Christmas Island (CX), Gambia (GM), Guinea-Bissau (GW), Haiti (HT), Iraq (IQ), Libya (LY), Malawi (MW), Martinique (MQ), Montserrat (MS), Myanmar (MM), French Reunion Island (RE), Seychelles (SC), Sierra Leone (SL), Somalia (SO), Sudan (SD), Tajikistan (TJ), Turkmenistan (TM), Turks and Caicos Islands (TC), British Virgin Islands (VG), Heard and McDonald Islands (HM), French Southern Territories (TF), British Indian Ocean Territory (IO), Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (SJ), St Pierre and Miquelon (PM), St Helena (SH), South Georgia/Sandwich Islands (GS), Sao Tome and Principe (ST), Ascension Island (AC), US Minor Outlying Islands (UM), Mayotte (YT), Wallis and Futuna Islands (WF), Tokelau Islands (TK), Chad Republic (TD), Afghanistan (AF), Cocos Island (CC), Bouvet Island (BV), Liberia (LR), American Samoa (AS), Niue (NU), Equatorial New Guinea (GQ), Bhutan (BT), Pitcairn Island (PN), Palau (PW), DR of Congo (CD) Top 10 Domains by Host #: com, edu, web, jp, uk, de, us, au, ca, mil Hacks of the Year: Indonesian Govt (19 Jan, 10 Feb, 24 Apr, 30 Jun, 22 Nov), NASA (5 Mar), UK Conservative Party (27 Apr), Spice Girls (14 Nov) Technologies of the Year: Push, Multicasting Emerging Technologies: Push 1998 Hobbes' Internet Timeline is released as RFC 2235 & FYI 32 US Depart of Commerce (DoC) releases the Green Paper outlining its plan to privatize DNS on 30 January. That is followed up by a White Paper on June 5 La Fête de l'Internet, a country-extensive Internet fest, is held in France 20-21 March Web size estimates range between 275 (Digital) and 320 (NEC) million pages for 1Q Companies flock to the Turkmenistan NIC to be able to register their title underneath the .tm area, the English abbreviation for trademark Internet customers get to be judges in a efficiency by 12 world champion ice skaters on 27 March, marking the primary time a tv sport present's outcome is decided by its viewers. Network Solutions registers its 2 millionth area on 4 May Electronic postal stamps turn into a actuality, with the US Postal Service allowing stamps to be purchased and downloaded for printing from the web. Canada kicks off CA*net 3, the primary national optical internet CDA II and a ban on Net taxes are signed into US legislation (21 October) ABCNews.com unintentionally posts test US election returns one day early (2 November) Indian ISP market is deregulated in November causing a rush for ISP operation licenses US DoC enters into an settlement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers (ICANN) to ascertain a process for transitioning DNS from US Government administration to business (25 November) San Francisco websites with out off-city mirrors go offline as the town blacks out on eight December Chinese authorities places Lin Hai on trial for "inciting the overthrow of state energy" for providing 30,000 email addresses to a US Internet magazine (December) [ He is later sentenced to two years in jail ] French Internet users quit their entry on thirteen December to boycott France Telecom's local cellphone expenses (that are in addition to the ISP charge) US$1M+ Domain Sales: Altavista.com (3.3M) to Compaq Open supply software comes of age RFC 2321: RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent RFC 2322: Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp RFC 2323: IETF Identification and Security Guidelines RFC 2324: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) Country domains registered: Nauru (NR), Comoros (KM) Bandwidth Generators: Winter Olympics (Feb), World Cup (Jun-Jul), Starr Report (11 Sep), Glenn space launch Top 10 Domains by Host #: com, net, edu, mil, jp, us, uk ,de, ca, au Hacks of the Year: US Dept of Commerce (20 Feb), New York Times (thirteen Sep), China Society for Human Rights Studies (26 Oct), UNICEF (7 Jan) Technologies of the Year: E-Commerce, E-Auctions, Portals Emerging Technologies: E-Trade, XML, Intrusion Detection 1999 Internet entry becomes accessible to the Saudi Arabian (.sa) public in January vBNS units up an OC48 hyperlink between CalREN South and North using Juniper M40 routers IBM turns into the first Corporate companion to be accepted for Internet2 entry European Parliament proposes banning the caching of Web pages by ISPs The Internet Fiesta kicks off in March across Europe, building on the success of La Fête de l'Internet held in 1998 US State Court rules that domains are property which may be garnished MCI/Worldcom, the vBNS supplier for NSF, begins upgrading the US spine to 2.5Gbps A cast Web web page made to look like a Bloomberg monetary news story raised shares of a small expertise company by 31% on 7 April. ICANN announces the five testbed registrars for the aggressive Shared Registry System on 21 April: AOL, CORE, France Telecom/Oléane, Melbourne IT, Register.com. 29 further publish-testbed registrars are additionally selected on 21 April, adopted by 8 on 25 May, 15 on 6 July, and so forth for a total of 98 by 12 months's finish. The testbed, originally scheduled to final until 24 June, is extended until 10 September, and then 30 November. The first registrar to come back online is Register.com on 7 June SETI@Home launches on 17 May and inside four weeks its distributed Internet purchasers provide extra computing energy than the most highly effective supercomputer of its time (:par:) First large-scale Cyberwar takes place simultaneously with the conflict in Serbia/Kosovo Abilene, the Internet2 community, reaches throughout the Atlantic and connects to NORDUnet and SURFnet The web turns into the focal level of British politics as a listing of MI6 brokers is released on a UK Web site. Though compelled to take away the checklist from the location, it was too late as the record had already been replicated throughout the web. (15 May) Activists Net-broad goal the world's financial centers on 18 June, timed to coincide with the G8 Summit. Little precise influence is reported. MCI/Worldcom launches vBNS+, a commercialized version of vBNS focused at smaller educational and research institutions DoD points a memo requiring all US army programs to connect through NIPRNET, and never directly to the Internet by 15 Dec 1999 (22 Aug) Somalia will get its first ISP - Olympic Computer (Sep) ISOC approves the formation of the Internet Societal Task Force (ISTF). Vint Cerf serves as first chair Free computers are all the fad (as long as you signal a long term contract for Net service) Country domains registered: Bangladesh (BD), Palestine (PS) vBNS reaches one zero one connections US$1M+ Domain Sales: enterprise.com (7.5M on 30 Nov), Wine.com (2.9M), Autos.com (2.2M), WallStreet.com (1M in Apr) RFC 2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service RFC 2550: Y10K and Beyond RFC 2551: The Roman Standards Process -- Revision III RFC 2555: 30 Years of RFCs RFC 2626: The Internet and the Millennium Problem (Year 2000) Top 10 TLDs by Host #: com, web, edu, jp, uk, mil, us, de, ca, au Hacks of the Year: Star Wars (8 Jan), .tp (Jan), USIA (23 Jan), E-Bay (13 Mar), US Senate (27 May), NSI (2 Jul), Paraguay Gov't (20 Jul), AntiOnline (5 Aug), Microsoft (26 Oct), UK Railtrack (31 Dec) Technologies of the Year: E-Trade, Online Banking, MP3 Emerging Technologies: Net-Cell Phones, Thin Computing, Embedded Computing Viruses of the Year: Melissa (March), ExploreZip (June) 2000s

2000 The US timekeeper (USNO) and a few other time services world wide report the brand new 12 months as 19100 on 1 Jan An enormous denial of service assault is launched in opposition to major web sites, together with Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay in early February Web measurement estimates by NEC-RI and Inktomi surpass 1 billion indexable pages ICANN redelegates the .pn area, returning it to the Pitcairn Island group (February) Internet2 spine community deploys IPv6 (16 May) Various area identify hijackings took place in late May and early June, including internet.com, bali.com, and internet.net A testbed allowing the registration of domain names in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean begins operation on 9 November. This testbed, created by VeriSign without IETF authorization, only permits the second-stage domain to be non-English, nonetheless forcing use of .com, .net, .org. The Chinese government blocks inner registrations, stating that registrations in Chinese are its sovereignty right ICANN selects new TLDs: .aero, .biz, .coop, .information, .museum, .identify, .pro (16 Nov) Mexico's connection to Internet2 becomes fully operational as the California analysis community (CalREN-2) is linked with Mexico's Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet (CUDI) community. Though linked in November, the hyperlink's inauguration by California's Governor and Mexico's President was not till March of 2001. After months of authorized proceedings, the French court guidelines Yahoo! should block French users from accessing hate memorabilia in its public sale site (Nov). Given its inability to offer such a block on the web, Yahoo! removes these auctions completely (Jan 2001). The case is ultimately thrown out (Feb 2003). The European Commission contracts with a consortium of 30 nationwide research networks for the development of Géant, Europe's new gigabit analysis community meant to boost the present capability provided by TEN-155 (6 Nov) Australian government endorses the transfer of authority for the .au area to auDA (18 Dec). ICANN signs over control to auDA on 26 Oct 2001. US$1M+ Domain Sales: AsSeenOnTV.com (5.1M) RFC 2795: The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite Hacks of the Year: RSA Security (Feb), Apache (May), Western Union (Sep), Microsoft (Oct) Technologies of the Year: ASP, Napster Emerging Technologies: Wireless units, IPv6 Viruses of the Year: Love Letter (May) Lawsuits of the Year: Napster, DeCSS 2001 The first reside distributed musical -- The Technophobe & The Madman -- over Internet2 networks debuts on 20 Feb VeriSign extends its multilingual domain testbed to encompass varied European languages (26 Feb), and later the total Unicode character set (5 Apr) opening up many of the world's languages Forwarding email in Australia turns into unlawful with the passing of the Digital Agenda Act, as it is seen as a technical infringement of non-public copyright (four Mar) Radio stations broadcasting over the net go silent over actor royalty disputes (10 Apr) High colleges in 5 states (Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington) change into the first to achieve Internet2 access US Dept of Commerce points a discover of intent on 6 April to show over administration for the .edu domain from VeriSign to Educause. Award agreement is reached on 29 October. Community faculties will lastly be capable to register beneath .edu Napster retains discovering itself embroiled in litigation and is eventually pressured to suspend service; it comes again later within the yr as a subscription service European Council finalizes a global cybercrime treaty on 22 June and adopts it on 9 November. That is the first treaty addressing criminal offenses dedicated over the Internet. .biz and .information are added to the root server on 27 June with registrations starting in July. .biz area go stay on 7 Nov. Afghanistan's Taliban bans Internet access nation-vast, together with from Government offices, in an try to manage content material (13 Jul) Code Red worm and Sircam virus infiltrate hundreds of web servers and e mail accounts, respectively, inflicting a spike in Internet bandwidth utilization and security breaches (July) A fireplace in a prepare tunnel running via Baltimore, Maryland critically damages numerous fiber-optic cable bundles utilized by backbone providers, disrupting Internet traffic within the Mid-Atlantic states and making a ripple impact throughout the US (18 Jul) Brazil RNP2 is related to Internet2's Abilene over 45Mbps line (21 Aug) GÉANT, the pan-European Gigabit Research and Education Network, becomes operational (23 Oct), changing the TEN-155 network which was closed down (30 Nov) .museum begins resolving (Nov) First uncompressed real-time gigabit HDTV transmission across a wide-area IP network takes place on Internet2 (12 Nov). Dutch SURFnet and Internet2's Abilene join via gigabit ethernet (15 Nov) .us domain operational duty assumed by NeuStar (20 Nov) Email relay established by Sili Bank between Pyongyang, North Korea and Shenyang, China US$1M+ Domain Sales: Insure.com (16.M in Dec) RFC 3091: Pi Digit Generation Protocol RFC 3092: Etymology of "Foo" RFC 3093: Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP) Viruses of the Year: Code Red (Jul), Nimda (Sep), SirCam (Jul), BadTrans (Apr, Nov) Emerging Technologies: Grid Computing, P2P 2002 US ISP Association (USISPA) is created from the previous CIX (11 Jan) .title begins resolving (15 Jan) .coop registrations start (30 Jan) Global Terabit Research Network (GTRN) is formed composed of two OC-48 2.4GB circuits connecting Internet2 Abiline, CANARIE CA*net3, and GÉANT (18 Feb) .aero registrations begin 18 March and beings resolving 2 September Federally acknowledged US Indian tribes grow to be eligible to register beneath .gov (26 Apr) Hundreds of Internet radio stations observe a Day of Silence in protest of proposed music royalty charge increases (1 May) The best wi-fi network in the northeast US is deployed by this Timeline's author. The solar-powered community bridges Mounts Washington and Wildcat in New Hampshire Abilene (Internet2) backbone deploys native IPv6 (5 Aug) The 69/eight IP vary is allotted to ARIN in August after having been within the bogon checklist; customers and servers assigned a 69/8 deal with find themselves blocked from many Internet websites Internet2 now has 200 university, 60 company, and 40 affiliate members (2 Sep) Having your own Blog turns into hip Hundreds of Spain-primarily based web pages take their content offline in protest of a new law that took impact on 12 Oct requiring all business Web pages to register with the federal government A distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault struck the 13 DNS root servers knocking out all however 5 (21-23 Oct). Amidst national safety considerations, VeriSign hastens a deliberate relocation of one in all its two DNS root servers A new US legislation creates a kids-protected "dot-children" domain (kids.us) to be applied in 2003 (3 Dec) The FBI groups up with Terras Lycos to disseminate virtual wished posts throughout the online portal's properties (eleven Dec) RFC 3251: Electricity over IP RFC 3252: Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport 2003 Public Interest Registry (PIR) takes over as .org registry operator on 1 Jan. Transition is completed on 27 Jan. By giving up .org, VeriSign is able to retain control over .com domains The primary official Swiss on-line election takes place in Anières (7 Jan) The registration for area ogrish.com is deleted (eleven Jan) by the German registrar Joker.com at the request of a German prosecutor claiming objectionable content material; the site nevertheless is hosted in the United States and complies with US legal guidelines. The SQL Slammer worm causes one in all the biggest and fastest spreading DDoS attacks ever. Taking roughly 10 minutes to unfold worldwide, the worm took down 5 of the 13 DNS root servers together with tens of hundreds of different servers, and impacted a multitude of methods ranging from (financial institution) ATM techniques to air traffic control to emergency (911) systems (25 Jan). That is followed in August by the Sobig.F virus (19 Aug), the quickest spreading virus ever, and the Blaster (MSBlast) worm (eleven Aug), another one of the crucial destructive worms ever Columbia University Professor Tim Wu coins the time period Net Neutrality okay.root-servers.web changes to utilizing nsd vs. bind to extend diversity of software in the root name server system (19 Feb) .nl registrations open up to anybody, including individuals and foreigners (29 Jan); .se also opens up its registration in April. .af is redelegated on eight Jan and turns into stay as soon as once more on 12 Feb with UNDP technical help. First domains are moc.gov.af and undp.org.af (15 Feb) .professional sunrise registration begins 23 Apr beneath .cpa.pro, .regulation.pro, .med.pro Flash mobs, organized over the net, start in New York and quickly kind in cities worlwide Taxes make headlines as: larger US Internet retailers start gathering taxes on all purchases; some US states tax Internet bandwidth; and the EU requires all Internet firms to gather worth added tax (VAT) on digital downloads starting 1 July The French Ministry of Culture bans using the phrase "e-mail" by government ministries, and adopts the usage of the more French sounding "courriel" (Jul) KRNIC begins providing Hangeul.kr domains (19 Aug) .youngsters.us sunrise registration begins 17 June and public registration on 9 Sep The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sues 261 individuals on 8 Sep for allegedly distributing copyright music information over peer-to-peer networks VeriSign deploys a wildcard service (Site Finder) into the .com and .net TLDs inflicting much confusion as URLs with invalid domains are redirected to a VeriSign web page (15 Sep). ICANN orders VeriSign to stop the service, which they comply with on four Oct Last Abilene section upgraded to 10Gbps (5 Nov) National LambdaRail announced as a new US R&D networking infrastructure (sixteen Sep). The primary connection takes place between Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF) in Chicago (18 Nov) Little GLORIAD (Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development) starts operations (22 Dec), consisting of a networked ring throughout the northern hemisphere with connections in Chicago, Amsterdam, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Zabajkal'sk, Manzhouli, Beijing, and Hong Kong. That is the first-ever fiber community connections across the Russia-China border RFC 3514: The security Flag in the IPv4 Header (The Evil Bit) 2004 For the first time, there are more situations of DNS root servers exterior the US with the launch of an anycast occasion of the RIPE NCC operated K-root server Abiline, the Internet2 spine, improve from 2.5Gbps to 10Gbps is completed (4 Feb) Thefacebook launches (four Feb) Network Solutions begins providing a hundred year domain registration (24 Mar) One of many .ly nameservers stops responding (7 Apr) causing the opposite nameserver to go offline (9 Apr), making the area inaccessible. Service is restored thirteen Apr ICANN authorizes new gTLDs: .asia, .cat, .jobs, .mobi, .tel, and .travel VeriSign Naming and Directory Service (VNDS) begins updating all thirteen .com/.web authoritative title servers in near actual-time vs. twice every day (8 Sep) Lycos Europe releases a display saver to assist battle spam by protecting spam servers busy with requests (1 Dec). The service is discontinued within a number of days after backbone providers block access to the obtain site and the service causes some servers to crash. Verizon begins blocking all e-mail site visitors from European ISPs on 22 Dec in an try and abate spam from the area into its US network CERNET2, the first spine IPv6 community in China, is launched by the China Education and Research Network (CERN) connecting 25 universities in 20 cities at speeds of 1-10Gbps (27 Dec) US$1M+ Domain Sales: CreditCards.com (2.75M) Emerging Technologies: Social networking, Web mashups RFC 3751: Omniscience Protocol Requirements 2005 .jobs, .mobi, and .travel begin accepting registrations .se turns into the primary ccTLD to implement DNSSEC Estonia presents Internet voting nationally for native elections Pakistan suffers a close to complete Internet outage as a submarine cable becomes defective (Jun) Two feuding suppliers (Cogent, Level 3) sever their peering connection leading to many customers from one supplier not having the ability to access assets on the opposite's network (Oct) Number of Internet users reaches 1 Billion (Oct) .eu (European Union) launches on 7 Dec US$1M+ Domain Sales: Fish.com (1.02M) RFC 4041: Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts RFC 4042: UTF-9 and UTF-18 Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode 2006 .cat registrations start for Catalan-associated domains Zimbabwe looses most of its Internet entry after its satellite connectivity is cut by the supplier for non-payment ICANN lifts value controls on .biz, .data, and .org domains, after the same was completed for .net in 2005, elevating fears of tiered pricing where popular domains would value more US Government prohibits non-public (anonymized) area registrations for .us after 26 Jan First tweet is distributed out by Jack Dorsey (21 Mar) -- "just setting up my twttr" ICANN board votes against .xxx TLD (10 May), only to approve it 5 years later The 6bone, an IPv6 testbed, is phased out after 10 years operation (6 Jun) .ax (Åland Islands) ccTLD comes into service on 15 Aug .cm registry implements wildcard domains redirecting all .com typos to its personal page (Aug) Internet2 connectivity begins switching from Abilene to its new network (Nov) Internet connectivity to southeast Asia is severely restricted after major fiber optic strains are severely damaged by an earthquake in Taiwan and subsequent underwater muslides (Dec) North Korean electronic mail relay upgraded to an at all times-on connection US$1M+ Domain Sales: Sex.com (14M?), Diamond.com (7.5M), Vodka.com (3M), Cameras.com (1.5M) Emerging Technologies: Cloud computing 2007 ICANN drops .um domain identify (US minor outlying islands) for lack of use (Jan) Estonia presents the first online nationwide parliamentary elections on 26-28 Feb ICANN terminates RegisterFly.com's registrar standing on sixteen Mar (efficient 31 Mar) Internet2 traffic in the Northeast US is disrupted on 1 May when a homeless man begins a fire beneath a Boston bridge causing a fiber break Use of #hashtag proposed by Tweeter person number 1,186, Chris Messina (23 Aug) Internet2's Abilene community is retired (Sep) as the final connections are switched over to the new Level 3 community Internet2 completes US East to West coast span of its 100GB/s community on 9 Oct .asia sunrise period begins in October US$1M+ Domain Sales: Porn.com (9.5M), Computer.com (2.1M), Seniros.com (1.8M), Tandberg.com (1.5M), Scores.com, Vista.com (1.25M), Chinese.com (1.12M), Guy.com (1M), Topix.com (1M) RFC 4824: The Transmission of IP Datagrams over the Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS) 2008 NASA successfully checks the primary deep area communications community modeled on the internet, utilizing the Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) software to transmit images to/from a science spacecraft ~20 million miles above Earth Google's crawler reaches 1 trillion pages, though only a fraction are indexed by the search engine. For comparability, Google's original index had 26 million pages in 1998, and reached 1 billion in 2000 The Middle East, India, and different elements of Africa and Asia see a major degradation in Internet service, together with outages, after a number of undersea cables carrying Internet traffic to the region are lower inside 1 week (Jan-Feb) IPv6 addresses are added for the primary time to 6 of the foundation zone servers (four Feb) YouTube becomes unreacheable for a few hours after Pakistan Telecom starts an unauthorized announcement of YouTube's subnet prefix (24 Feb) US$1M+ Domain Sales: Fund.com (9.9M), Clothes.com (4.9M), Shopping.de (2.8M), Kredit.de (1.17M), Cruises.co.uk (1.09M), Invest.com (1.01M) RFC 5241: Naming Rights in IETF Protocols RFC 5242: A Generalized Unified Character Code: Western European and CJK Sections 2009 DNSSEC becomes operational on .gov (28 Feb), .org (2 Jun), .us (15 Dec) .tel registrations begin Bitcoins begin being minted US Department of Commerce relaxes management over ICANN, in favor of a multi-nationwide oversight group Domain tasting will get severely curtailed after ICANN raises the 2008-launched price for erroneously registered domains from $0.20 to $6.95; area kiting however conitnues Twitter is asked by the US Government to delay planned maintenance of its service on 15 June because of heavy use by Iranian customers throughout unrest in that country .se domains become unreachable for an hour on 12 Oct after an incorrectly configured software program replace modifies all registrations ICANN opens up applications for internationalized domain names (16 Nov) Crowdfunding turns into a popular technique of elevating startup funds; Kickstart founded on April 28 Emerging Technologies: Location consciousness US$1M+ Domain Sales: Insure.com (16M in Oct), Toys.com (5.1M in Feb), Auction.com (1.7M in Mar), Candy.com (3M in Jun), Webcam.com (1.02M in Jun), Fly.com (1.76M), Call.com (1.1M in Sep), Ticket.com (1.53M in Oct), Russia.com (1.5M in Dec) RFC 5513: IANA Considerations for three Letter Acronyms RFC 5514: IPv6 over Social Networks 2010s

2010 Astronaut T.J. Creamer inaugurates the new International Space Station direct link to the Internet (aka Crew Support LAN) with a tweet (22 Jan) -- "Hello Twitterverse! We r now Live tweeting from the International Space Station -- the first live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s" A Chinese root DNS server is taken offline after disrupting some companies in Chile and US (Mar) Google announces on 22 January that along with 20+ other US firms, it had been the goal of a cyber attack originating in China, and on 22 March stops censoring its services in China Google+ service launches in public beta on 28 June; surpasses 10M customers in Jul 2011, 100M in Feb 2012, and 400M in Sep 2012 Root DNS zone digitally signed (DNSSEC) for first time (15 Jul) Variety of registered domain attain 200M (~ Aug) A BGP experiment between RIPE NCC and Duke U ends in a partial Internet outage (27 Aug) US Senate authorizes US Dept of Homeland Security to grab domains of websites suspected of piracy (Nov) Myanmar is briefly taken offline by a denial of service assault (Nov) Verisign introduced DNSSEC deployed to .internet (10 Dec) Photo-sharing sees a renewal with the launch of social-primarily based companies similar to Pinterest and Instagram US$1M+ Domain Sales: Poker.org (1M in Feb), Flying.com (1.1M in Apr), Photo.com (1.25M in May), Dating.com (1.75M in Jun), Slots.com (5.5M in Jun), fb.com (8.5M in Sep), Zip.com (1.6M in Oct), Sex.com (13M on 17 Nov) RFC 5841: TCP Option to denote Packet Mood 2011 LinkedIn reaches 100M users (Mar); surpasses 200M in Jan 2013 Egypt shuts down its last ISP on 31 Jan and stays offline for 2 days Number Resource Organization (NRO) declares full depletion of obtainable IPv4 addresses free pool (three Feb) US Dept of Homeland Defense seizes 10 domains, together with mistakenly mooo.com which hosted 84,000 internet sites and stay unavailable for two days (eleven Feb) Internet visitors in Lybia is considerably curtailed for a number of days in February APNIC releases final block of IPv4 tackle in its accessible pool (14 Apr) .xxx goes stay in root servers (15 Apr) First non-Latin TLDs (IDN) are inserted into root zone (5 May): مصر (Egypt), السعودية (AlSaudiah), امارات (Emarat) Millions of .de domains unreachable for hours (12 May) World IPv6 Day is 8 June Variety of Internet customers reaches 2 Billion (Nov) US$1M+ Domain Sales: DomainName.com (1M in May), Social.com (2.6M in Jul), Box.com (1M in Jul) RFC 5984: Increasing Throughput in IP Networks with ESP-Based Forwarding: ESPBasedForwarding RFC 6214: Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6 RFC 6217: Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer 2012 ICANN begins accepting functions for new generic top-degree domains (gTLDs) on 12 Jan Facebook reaches 1 billion month-to-month active users (604M cell) on 14 Sep @ 12:50pm PT, with 581M every day on average Amazon becomes the biggest internet hosting location by number of net-going through computer systems (118k), knocking China Telecom from first place (116k) Canadian online sports playing company Bodog has its .com area name ceased by US Dept of Homeland Security, inflicting concern among worldwide companies that may be afoul of US laws and whose TLDs have US registries World IPv6 Launch is 6 June Minitel shuts down at the tip of June GoDaddy service goes down, making tens of millions of sites inaccessible for several hours (10 Sep) RIPE NCC distributes last blocks of IPv4 deal with house from obtainable pool (14 Sep) Twitter surpasses 200M energetic users (Dec), and 500M tweets per day (Oct) NASA's Curiosity Rover checks-in on FourSquare from Mars (three Oct) PKNIC is hacked and 284 Pakistani internet sites, including apple.pk and google.pk, seem defaced (24 Nov) Syria is disconnected from the Internet for two days (29 Nov - 1 Dec) "Gangnam Style" turns into the first YouTube video to succeed in 1 billion views (21 Dec) US$1M+ Domain Sales: PersonalLoans.com (1M in Feb), GiftCard.com (4M in Oct), Investing.com (2.45M in Dec) RFC 6592: The Null Packet RFC 6593: Service Undiscovery Using Hide-and-Go-Seek for the Domain Pseudonym System (DPS) 2013 Netflix and YouTube account for over 50% of Internet visitors measured by bytes New gTLDs added to domain identify root zone (24 Oct): شبكة (internet), онлайн (online), сайт (site), and 游戏 (recreation) US National Security Agency (NSA) is revealed to be accumulating appreciable extra Internet data than beforehand thought, together with encrypted data from main Internet sites Yahoo hacked with credentials of 3 billion accounts stolen, not discovered until years later US$1M+ Domain Sales: ig.com (4.7M in Sep), 114.com (2.1M in Jul), ebet.com (1.35M in Oct), kk.com (2.4M in Nov) RFC 6919: Further Key Words to be used in RFCs to indicate Requirement Levels RFC 6921: Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication The variety of Internet hosts surpass 1billion (see chart under) 2014 Most of the Internet site visitors in China is redirected to US-based mostly Dynamic Internet Technology for over an hour (21 Jan) Registration begins for the primary few of a whole bunch new Latin gTLDs, together with .guru, .bike, .clothing, .holdings, .ventures, .singles, and .plumbing (29 Jan) .py ccTLD hacked -- full whois registry data leaked and domains redirected (e.g., google.com.py) (20 Feb) The variety of Web servers surpass 1billion (see chart below) ICANN announces that it has begun allocating the remaining IPv4 addresses to the 5 regional Internet registries after LACNIC's supply dropped to under eight million (20 May) After an EU court docket ruling requiring Google to honor "requests to be forgotten", 12,000 requests are submitted in the first day (30 May) Many networks are taken offline as a consequence of a Verizon glitch introducing hundreds of new prefixes into the global routing table, inflicting well-liked but unpatched Cisco routers to achieve their 512,000 limit and crash (12 Aug) RFC 7168: The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA) RFC 7169: The NSA (No Secrecy Afforded) Certificate Extension Hacks of the Year: Sony Pictures, Home Depot, JP Morgan, eBay Bugs of the yr: Heartbleed (Dec 2011 - 7 Apr), Poodle (Nov 1996 - 14 Oct), Shellshock (Sep 1989 - 24 Sep) ICANN area public sale gross sales (US$): .tech (6.76M), .realty (5.59M), .salon (5.1M), .purchase (4.6M), .mls (3.359M), .child (3.09M), .vip (3M), .spot (2.2M) US$1M+ Domain Sales: mm.com (1.2M in Jul), sex.xxx (3M in Jun), medicare.com (4.8M in May), mi.com (3.6M in Apr), 37.com (1.96M in Mar), youxi.com (2.43M in Mar), whisky.com (3.1M in Jan) 2015 A Georgian scavenging for copper cuts off much of the Internet in neighbouring Armenia when her spade slices a buried cable (28 Mar) Largest TLDs by zone measurement as of 2Q: .com, .tk, .de, .net, .cn, .uk, .org, .ru, .nl, .data Largest ccTLDs by zone measurement as of 2Q: .tk, .de, .cn, .uk, .ru, .nl, .eu, .br, .au, .fr HTTP header "X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett" is served by ~84,000 internet sites (Jun) 3 months after Sir Pratchett's dying Let's Encrypt holds key ceremony to generate the foundation key and middleman certificates for its free certificate authority (four Jun) and issues the primary certificate for helloworld.letsencrypt.org on 14 Sep U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) web neutrality rule takes impact (12 Jun) ARIN activates IPv4 Unmet Requests coverage, rejecting an IPv4 block request for the primary time (1 Jul). ARIN's free pool depletes on 24 Sep. Out of 100 billion month-to-month Google searches, those from mobile devices surpass desktops for the primary time 1 billion users (1 in 7 people on Earth) entry Facebook on a single day (24 Aug) IANA designates .onion a particular use area for anonymous hidden services on the Tor network (9 Sep) WordPress powers 25% of websites as of early November Most of the interior Internet connectivity in Azerbaijan is lost on account of a fireplace in a telecommunications facility (sixteen Nov) RFC 7511: Scenic Routing for IPv6 RFC 7514: Really Explicit Congestion Notification (RECN) Hacks of the Year: US Office of Personnel Management, Ashley Madison, Anthem, T-Mobile, IRS ICANN domain public sale gross sales (US$): .app (25M), .accommodations (2.2M), .ping (1.5M) US$1M+ Domain Sales: Porno.com (8.8M in Feb), PX.com (1M in Sep), 588.com (1M in Sep) 2016 Internet Society celebrates twenty fifth anniversary (1 Jan) Let's Encrypt points millionth certificate (8 Mar), 2M (21 Apr), 10M (9 Sep), 20M (27 Nov) ICANN introduces 1000th gTLD from 2012 utility window (25 May) United Nations Human Rights Council adopts a decision on the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the internet (27 Jun) A California District Court Judge grants a movement for what is thought to be the first permitted serving of a lawsuit through Twitter (30 Sep) DDoS assaults wreak havoc throughout the Internet with some topping over 1Tbps in bandwidth and powered by over 150,000 hacked Internet units Several outstanding Internet sites develop into unreacheable as domain infrastructure provider Dyn is knocked offline by a DDoS attack (21 Oct) IPv6 reaches 10% deployment globally, and becomes the dominant (>50%) Internet protocol for US cellular networks Coordination and administration of the Internet's unique identifiers transition to the private sector because the IANA contract between ICANN and the US Dept of Commerce's NTIA expires (1 Oct) Yahoo discloses 500 million accounts compromised in 2014 (22 Sep) and that 1 billion accounts were compromised in Aug 2013 (14 Dec) .cn surpasses .tk in ccTLD zone dimension Annual international IP traffic surpasses 1 zettabyte US$1M+ Domain Sales: HG.com (3.7M in Nov), Vivo.com (2.1M in Nov), Jade.com (1.25M in Jul), LA.com (1.2M in May) 2017 IETF enters into an settlement with the National Library of Sweden for archival of RFC collection in NLS' bunker (sixteen Jan) Dozens of politically motivated Internet shutdowns occur globally including in Cameroon (Jan-Apr), Togo (Sep), and Equatorial Guinea (Nov) (:db1:) Average quantity of encrypted visitors on Firefox surpasses the typical unencrypted volume (Feb) and reaches 66% by yr finish dmoz.org, an early web listing, shuts down after 19 years (17 Mar) AfriNIC is the last Regional Internet Registry to run out of IPv4 addresses (Apr) WannaCry ransomware assault spreads to over a hundred and fifty international locations (12 May) IPv6 connectivity marketed by 9M domain names and 23% of all networks Let's Encrypt reaches 100M certificates milestone (28 Jun) A safety researcher is able to "hijack" the .io TLD by registering expired nameserver domain names (5 Jul) W3C announced publication of Encrypted Media Extensions, a web-based digital-rights management functionality, resulting in the primary attraction request in its historical past (6 Jul) Equifax credit agency discovers a breach of its programs that resulted within the disclosure of delicate data on 145M+ people (29 Jul) Facebook and other social media companies are discovered to have been used by international governments to affect elections in the U.S. and other nations Google leaks 160,000 BGP routes in Chicago with 25,000+ of them for NTT OCN significantly impacting Internet site visitors in Japan (25 Aug) Hurricanes knock out Internet service to Puerto Rico and different Caribbean islands for prolonged intervals (Aug-Sep) Russia pronounces plans to develop a backup DNS system for use by BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) to be applied inside one yr Zimbabwe loses most of its Internet entry for a number of hours on account of simultaneous outages at two main international suppliers, including a tractor fiber lower in South Africa (5 Dec) IP addresses for Google, Facebook, Apple, and others, are re-routed to Russian provider Megafon when considered one of its transit providers leak route knowledge to the worldwide Internet (12 Dec) U.S. FCC votes to repeal web neutrality (14 Dec) AOL Instant Messenger (Aim) and CompuServe Forums cease service after 20+ years (15 Dec) U.S. Library of Congress publicizes it's going to cease archiving every tweet at yr end Facebook reaches 2 billion lively monthly customers, YouTube 1.5B, WhatsApp 1.2B, WeChat 889M, Instagram 700M, Twitter 330M Variety of domain name registrations across all TLDs surpasses 330M, with 130M in .com, 145M throughout ccTLDs, and 21M across new gTLDs, as of 3Q Largest TLDs by zone measurement as of 3Q: .com, .cn, .tk, .de, .internet, .uk, .org, .ru, .data, .nl Largest ccTLDs by zone size as of 3Q: .cn, .tk, .de, .uk, .ru, .nl, .br, .eu, .au, .fr Largest new global TLD (ngTLDs) as of 3Q: .xyz, .mortgage, .high, .win, .club, .online, .vip, .wang, .bid, .site RFC 8135: Complex Addressing in IPv6 RFC 8136: Additional Transition Functionality for IPv6 RFC 8140: The Arte of ASCII: Or, An True and Accurate Representation of an Menagerie of Thynges Fabulous and Wonderful in Ye Forme of Character US$1M+ Domain Sales: Fly.com (2.89M in May), ETH.com (2M in Oct), Freedom.com (2M in May), 01.com (1.82M in Feb), 20.com (1.75M in Apr), MyWorld.com (1.2M in Oct)

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Early Internet growth: Date Hosts | Date Hosts Networks Domains ----- --------- + ----- --------- -------- --------- 12/sixty nine four | 07/89 130,000 650 3,900 06/70 9 | 10/89 159,000 837 10/70 11 | 10/90 313,000 2,063 9,300 12/70 thirteen | 01/91 376,000 2,338 04/71 23 | 07/91 535,000 3,086 16,000 10/seventy two 31 | 10/91 617,000 3,556 18,000 01/73 35 | 01/ninety two 727,000 4,526 06/74 sixty two | 04/ninety two 890,000 5,291 20,000 03/77 111 | 07/ninety two 992,000 6,569 16,300 12/seventy nine 188 | 10/ninety two 1,136,000 7,505 18,one hundred 08/81 213 | 01/ninety three 1,313,000 8,258 21,000 05/eighty two 235 | 04/ninety three 1,486,000 9,722 22,000 08/83 562 | 07/ninety three 1,776,000 13,767 26,000 10/eighty four 1,024 | 10/ninety three 2,056,000 16,533 28,000 10/85 1,961 | 01/94 2,217,000 20,539 30,000 02/86 2,308 | 07/ninety four 3,212,000 25,210 46,000 11/86 5,089 | 10/ninety four 3,864,000 37,022 56,000 12/87 28,174 | 01/ninety five 4,852,000 39,410 71,000 07/88 33,000 | 07/ninety five 6,642,000 61,538 120,000 10/88 56,000 | 01/96 9,472,000 93,671 240,000 01/89 80,000 | 07/96 12,881,000 134,365 488,000 | 01/97 16,146,000 828,000 | 07/ninety seven 19,540,000 1,301,000 Hosts = a computer system with registered ip handle (an A file) Networks = registered class A/B/C addresses Domains = registered domain identify (with name server file) Figure: Internet Domains (1989-1997) [see below for 2000-] Figure: Internet Networks Worldwide Networks Growth: (I)nternet (B)ITNET (U)UCP (F)IDONET (O)SI ____# Countries____ ____# Countries____ Date I B U F O Date I B U F O ----- --- --- --- --- --- ----- --- --- --- --- --- 09/91 31 47 seventy nine 49 02/94 sixty two 51 125 88 31 12/91 33 46 78 53 07/ninety four 75 fifty two 129 89 31 02/92 38 46 92 sixty three 11/94 81 fifty one 133 ninety five -- 04/92 40 forty seven ninety 66 25 02/ninety five 86 forty eight 141 98 -- 08/ninety two 49 forty six 89 67 26 06/ninety five 96 47 144 ninety nine -- 01/93 50 50 one hundred and one 72 31 06/96 134 -- 146 108 -- 04/ninety three 56 fifty one 107 79 31 07/ninety seven 171 -- 147 108 -- 08/ninety three 59 51 117 84 31 Figure: Worldwide Networks Growth Domain Name Registrations: Figure: Domain Name Registrations (2000-) Internet Hosts: Figure: Internet Hosts

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click right here for a chart exhibiting the logarithmic growth of the Web pages = Variety of net servers (one host may have a number of sites by utilizing different domains or port numbers) Notes on causes of signifant increases/drops: - Feb'09 improve possible because of 20M new Chinese websites served by qq.com - Aug'09 drop likely due to area expiry at the Planet, including 5M .pl domains served from one IP alleged to be a linkfarm - Jan'10 drop probably as a consequence of qq.com blogs no longer being publically listed - Jul-Aug'12 drop brought on by removing of a number of wildcard hostnames with similar content - Sep'12 drop brought on by large network of linkfarmed domains disappearing from beneath the .com TLD - Nov'14-Jan'15 drop largely caused by parked websites, with half attributed to a single IP ceasing to host them Facebook Growth: Figure: Facebook Accounts / Monthly Active Users (MAUs) USENET Growth: Date Sites ~MB ~Posts Groups | Date Sites ~MB ~Posts Groups ---- ----- --- ------ ------ + ---- ------- --- ------ ------ 1979 3 2 3 | 1987 5,200 2 957 259 1980 15 10 | 1988 7,800 4 1933 381 1981 a hundred and fifty 0.05 20 | 1990 33,000 10 4,500 1,300 1982 four hundred 35 | 1991 40,000 25 10,000 1,851 1983 600 a hundred and twenty | 1992 63,000 42 17,556 4,302 1984 900 225 | 1993 110,000 70 32,325 8,279 1985 1,300 1.Zero 375 | 1994 180,000 157 72,755 10,696 1986 2,200 2.0 946 241 | 1995 330,000 586 131,614 ~ approximate: MB - megabytes per day, Posts - articles per day Security (CERT/US-CERT) Stats: Date Incidents Advisories Vulnerabilities Tech Alerts ---- --------- ---------- --------------- ----------- 1988 6 1 1989 132 7 1990 252 12 1991 406 23 1992 773 21 1993 1,334 19 1994 2,340 15 1995 2,412 18 171 1996 2,573 27 345 1997 2,134 28 311 1998 3,734 thirteen 262 1999 9,859 17 417 2000 21,756 22 774 2001 52,658 37 2,437 2002 82,094 37 4,129 2003 137,529 28 3,784 2004 3,780 27 2005 5,990 22 2006 8,064 39 2007 7,236 forty two 2008Q1-3 6,058 29 Hobbes' Internet Timeline FAQ

1. How do I get Hobbes' Internet Timeline? The Timeline is archived at http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/. There are no authorized mirrors for the Timeline. 2. Is the Timeline accessible in different languages or editions? Chinese (Big5) by Tony Mao French by Didier Mainguy German by Michael Kaul Hungarian by Zsolt Boros Japanese (PDF) by Katsunori Tanaka Korean by Keonho Lee, KNIC Persian / Farsi (PDF) by Rahi Moosavi Portuguese by Simone Villas Boas In case you are all in favour of translating to another language or format, e mail me first 3. Can I re-print the Timeline or use components of it for ... ? Drop me an e mail. The answer is more than likely (though don't assume) 'sure' for non-profit use, and 'maybe' for for-profit; but to make sure you are not going to interrupt any copyright legal guidelines, drop me an email and await a reply. Also, please be aware that I get a bunch of requests with improperly formatted return e-mail addresses. If you don't hear from me in a week (typical turn around is 0. Peddie (Ala Viva!), CWRU (North Side), Amici usque ad aras (PKP OH-EP), Colégio Andrews (Rio), Gordonstoun (Elgin) E-mail me if you know

redstarpokerruplay.ru Hobbes' Internet Timeline was compiled from a number of sources, with some of the stand-outs being: Cerf, Vinton (as told to Bernard Aboba). "How the Internet Came to Be." This article appears in "The Online User's Encyclopedia," by Bernard Aboba.