Internet Time 1995 2001 By Sam Olsen Microsoft

“Internet Time” 1995 -2001 By Sam Olsen

Microsoft (& others) Personal Computing version 3. 1 of Windows licensing policies emergence of Dell, Compaq, and Gateway

Applications in Use Applications on original Mac Windows’ fight against Lotus Microsoft Office appears!

Internet Explorer & Law Suits Internet Explorer Paperback’s “look and feel” of 1 -2 -3 Lead to more lawsuits 1994 - a Consent Degree by Microsoft Clever Microsoft Netscape follows Microsoft 1997 - Charges against Internet Explorer

Email MSN, Exchange, Yahoo! the counter threat called Hotmail

Emergence of Dot. Com & Another Policy Acceptable Use Policy “Extensive use for private business” UNACCEPTABLE! 1992 -restrictions were lifted NFSnet dissolved

In Marches Al Gore 1991 -proposition of a National Information Infrastructure lead to the High Performance Computing Act (the “Gore Bill” Continued to champion Internet usage www. whitehouse. gov the “unanticipated consequences”

Perks of Java HTTP- by Tim Berners-Lee Bill Joy’s, of SUN Microsystem, search for new programming language C-plus-minus Java-1991 James Gosling p-system

Revenue from Online July 1995, Jeff Bezos- Amazon. com September 1995, Pierre Omidyar- Auction Web WELL (“Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link”) “virtual communities”

What am I looking for? search engines and “portals” Yahoo! - 1994 “bots” that “crawl” through Web sites Google - 1998, Sergei Brin & Larry Page

Linux 1988 - Seymour Cray chips made from gallium arsenide Linux by Linus Torvalds “open source” program UNIX characteristics to understand Linux social, not technical reliance on the C programming language & use of C compilers

Linux & Connection to UNIX Linux close to UNIX but still different AT&T becoming a nuisance perks of allowing free software projects - Eric Raymond

A New Language GCC, the “GNU C Compiler” Torvalds moved in a slightly different direction with GCC GNU, “GNU’s Not UNIX” managed to avoid legal problems! GNU General Public License

Quick Note on IBM Where did it go? Suffered huge loss in the early 1990 s but changed (unlike the rest of the BUNCH)

Bibliography • Ceruzzi, Paul E. "Chapter 10, Internet Age. " A History of Modern Computing: Paul E. Ceruzzi. Cambridge (Mass. ): MIT, 2003. Print.