On 30 April 1995 the US National Science Foundation shut down the NSFNET backbone, the high-speed network that had linked universities and research centres and had banned commercial traffic. In its place a network of private commercial providers carried the Internet's traffic. Months earlier, the Netscape Navigator browser had made the World Wide Web easy to use, Netscape went public in August 1995 to feverish demand, Amazon and eBay were launched, and Microsoft released Windows 95. The number of internet users grew from about 16 million in 1995 to over 5 billion today. The change started the dot-com boom and transformed commerce and communication.
Before and after
- 6 January 1995Founding of The Left in the European Parliament - GUE/NGL
- 17 January 1995Great Hanshin Earthquake
- 20 March 1995Tokyo subway sarin attack
- 19 April 1995Oklahoma City bombing
- 30 April 1995The Internet opens to commercial use
- 23 May 1995Release of MySQL
- 25 May 1995Tuzla massacre
- from 25 May 1995 to 26 May 1995May 1995 Pale air strikes
- 8 June 1995Creation of PHP
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 14 February 1961Discovery of lawrencium
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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