Communities begin to be wired up directly to the Internet. Shopping malls arrive on the Internet. 25 million people use the Internet, and over 2 million computers are connected to it. A new system of Network Access Points comes into force in the United States to handle increased Internet traffic. The World Wide Web becomes the most popular part of the Internet based on traffic.
Private industry takes over, and the Internet becomes commercialized.
It is estimated that about 30 million US Households have computers. Ten to fifteen million homes have modems which enable them to go online. According to various forecasts, between 40 and 70 million households will have home computers by the end of the year 2000. By the turn of the century, there will be 120 million host computers connected to the Net. The Internet Society maintains a set of charts , tables and current metric graphs.