Mosaic Web browser developed by Marc Andreesen at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Web grows by 341,000 percent in a year. Java 's first public demonstration. Microsoft licenses technology from Spyglass to create Web browser for Windows 95 . Sun Microsystems releases Java.
Browser wars begin.
Netscape and Microsoft two biggest players. Jon Postel dies. Microsoft declared a monopoly by US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. A federal judge rules that Napster must remain off-line until it can prevent copyrighted material from being shared by its users. For a more extensive time-line visit Hobbes' Internet Timeline and Nerds 2.0.1 Internet Timeline .