ARPAnet is switched off. The more popular Internet takes over. . The University of Minnesota, US, introduces Gopher, a software program for retrieving information from servers on the Internet. . CERN, the international physics research establishment in Switzerland, releases the code for 'hypertext', a software concept which leads to the development of the World Wide Web. . 1993 . The first release of a Web browser, Mosaic.
Growth is now explosive.
By the end of the year, six million servers and 50,000 networks are connected to the Internet. Within two weeks it is receiving four million hits a day. . Digital Equipment launches Alta Vista Personal Edition, software which makes it possible to search the World Wide Web from your own PC. . The Internet began as ARPAnet, a project funded by the United States Department of Defense in 1969 to link the department with military contractors and the numerous universities engaged in military-funded research. ARPA, the Advanced Research Project Administration, was then responsible for apportioning grant funds.