How the Internet started.
1995 - AOL, CompuServe, & Prodigy provide access to the internet. eBay is launched. 25,000 Web sites exist on the Internet. Domain name registration is no longer free.
1996 - The W3 Consortium releases HTML 3.2. The Internet has 10 million hosts.
1997 - The Internet has 19.5 million hosts and 1.2 million Web sites.
1998 - The Internet has 36.8 million hosts and 4.2 million web sites. HTML 4 is released.