Need switches from having a single, large time sharing computer connected to Internet per site, to connection of an entire local network. WAIS released by Thinking Machines Corporation. Gopher released by University of Minnesota. 1992 Internet Society is chartered. US Senate and State of California provide information servers.
Shopping malls arrive on the Internet.
First Virtual, the first cyberbank, open up for business. Main US backbone traffic is now routed through interconnected network providers. Hong Kong police disconnect all but 1 of the colony's Internet providers in search of a hacker. 10,000 people are left without Net access. Radio HK, the first 24 hr., Internet-only radio station starts broadcasting.