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Timeline of Milestones in Communications History, 1990 -> 2002

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1990


Timothy Berners-Lee at CERN develops World Wide Web. (December)

ARPANET is retired (28 February)

1991


1992

A new Internet protocol, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), was introduced to improve the efficiency of document retrieval (July)

The Internet Society (ISOC) is formed.

1993

Mosaic, which is one of the first web browsers is released.

1994

Yahoo goes on-line.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is created.

1995

CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) is introduced.

1996


1997


1998


1999


2000

3G Standard is finalized.

2001


2002

IEEE Communications Society celebrates it's 50th Anniversary

 


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