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1995

INTERNET EVENTS

• Netscape came out with a new browser based on Mosaic.

• Windows 95 was able to handle the Internet better than any other Windows Version.

• Microsoft invented another browser, again based on Mosaic called Internet Explorer and gave this away for free.

• The World Wide Web had enough web sites created to make browsing a pleasant experience for the average consumer.

• The internet got too big for NSF to fund. First Commercial Internet Service Providers (ISP's)- Sprint, Alternet and Performance Systems Internations (PSI) took over, charging the consumer about $3 per hour.

• There were now about 10,000,000 hosts/nodes that made up the Internet.

• There were about 100,000 Web Sites to browse.

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CURRENT EVENTS

• The Oklahoma City Bombing.

• OJ Simpsons was found innocent on October 4th.

• Large earthquake in Japan strikes.

• The First Tibetan Freedom Concert.

• The Ebola virus kills 244 Africans in Kikwit, Zaire in Central Africa.

• Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr. makes history as the first black American astronaut to walk in space

• Captain Scott O'Grady of the Air Force was shotdown on June 2,1995 while flying a routine sortie over war-torn Bosnia. He was rescued 5 1/2 days later on June 8,1995.

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