ed on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) will eventually develop a graphical browser for the WWW called Mosaic. Traffic on the NSF backbone network exceeds one trillion bytes per month. The first audio and video broadcasts take place over a portion of the Internet known as the "MBONE." One million hosts have multimedia access to the Internet over the MBONE. More than one million hosts are part of the Internet. Mosaic, the first graphics-based Web browser, becomes available. Traffic on the Internet expands at a 341,634 percent annual growth rate. 1994 The Rolling Stones broadcast the Voodoo Lounge tour over the MBONE. Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark form Netscape Communications Corp. Pizza Hut accepts orders for a mushroom, pepperoni with extra cheese over the net, and Japan's Prime Minister goes online at www.kantei.go.jp. Backbone traffic exceeds ten trillion bytes per month. Downloaded from Digital Engineering Library @ McGraw-Hill (www.digitalengineeringlibrary.com) Copyright © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use as given at the website. First Things First Chapter 1 1995 NSFNET reverts to a research project, leaving the Internet in commercial hands. The Web now comprises the bulk of Internet traffic. The Vatican launches www.vatican.va. James Gosling and a team of programmers at Sun Microsystems release an Internet programming language called Java, which radically alters the way applications and information can be retrieved, displayed, and used over the Internet. 1996 Nearly ten million hosts are online. The Internet covers the globe. As the Internet celebrates its 25th anniversary, the military strategies that influenced its birth become historical footnotes. Approximately forty million people are connected to the Internet. More than $1 billion per year changes hands at Internet shopping malls, and Internet-related companies like Netscape are the darlings of high-tech investors. Users in almost 150 countries around the world are 