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History of the Internet

By 1985, ARPANET had split into ARPANET and MILNET and the network consisted of over 1,000 hosts. One year later, the National Science Foundation created a network of routers consisting of T1 lines which it called NSFNET. The year 1987 also brought the creation of CREN (Corporation for Research and Educational Networking). By 1988, traffic on the network had increased so quickly that plans were immediately made to upgrade the network again. To give you an idea of the speed of growth, in 1987 there were 28,174 hosts. In one year, the number of hosts on the network doubled to 56,000.

The 1990’s brought us the World Wide Web, over one million hosts connected to the network. InterNIC was created by NSF to provide specific Internet services. Pizza Hut became the first to offer customers the opportunity to order pizza on their Web page. The speed of network hosts doubled year after year and by 1996 there were over fifteen million hosts on the Internet and that number was growing by leaps and bounds.