| 1984- Number of Internet host exceeds 1,000. |
| 1985- Internet e-mail is now part of life at many universities. |
| Timeline continued... |
| 1984 - Present Day |
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| 1986- FreeNet Created. |
| 1987- Internet hosts exceed 10,000. |
| 1988- Internet Worm Released. The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is formed as a result. |
| 1989- Internet host exceeds 100,000. |
| 1990- ARPANET decommissioned and named Internet. Host exceed 300,000. |
| 1991- Traffic on the NSF backbone network exceeds 1 trillion bytes per month. |
| 1992- First audio and video sent across Internet. |
| 1993- The first graphics based Web browser, Mosaic, is created. |
| 1994- First Pizza ordered over the Net. |
| 1995- Java invented by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. |
| 1996- Nearly 10 million host online. Internet covers the globe. |
| Present Day- Today people use the Internet as freely as one would drive a car. It can be used in all aspects of life. From Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, to young children and their grand parents. |
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