ARPANET geographic map Here is a map showing the key facilities of ARPAnet A lot of them are around Washington DC and other network in San Diego Stanford University was another big part of the project In New York and the North East This is the original map of what would become the Internet Wireless signals that go from place to place instantaneously Internet Goes Mainstream diversity non government and non university users In 1991 the government opens up the internet to general public eventually withdrawing funding in 1995 leaving it in private companies who develop the internet This is when the internet really begins to become commercial This is when you start to have people getting private e mail accounts This is when you start to have people using discussion boards which were some of the earliest incarnations of the internet early 90s People as early of 91 93 have internet People are getting access to e mail and web based discussion boards There was no World Wide Web yet but it was starting
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