How the Internet started.
1990 - ARPAnet shuts down, NSFnet losses government funding so net becomes self-sustaining. The Internet has 300,000 hosts.
1991 - The NSF lifts the ban on commercial network traffic over the Internet. 1st ISP is born PSI.
1992 - The Internet has 1 million hosts and 50 Web sites worldwide. The phrase “surfing the Internet” is coined by Jean Armour Polly.