InterNIC provided a centralized organization for domain name registration,
and continues to regulate that function today. As the great, unwashed hordes
began to flood into the Internet, it was only natural that vendors would soon
follow. So in 1995, the first Internet based shopping mall was opened on the
World Wide Web. It was also in this year that the World Wide Web edged out FTP
as the most popular service on the Internet. In 1995, Compuserve, America Online
and Prodigy opened up Internet access portals, and hundreds of thousands of
commercial users flooded into what had previously been the private domain of
veteran computer users. The average IQ dropped dramatically at this point. Since
1995, some of the new and/or emerging technologies have included Server Push,
Multicasting, Streaming Media, E-Commerce, ASP and XML. Although the Internet
started out of military necessity, it is doubtful that its creators could
envision its impact, not only on the American culture or the world in general,
but on the future of the human race. The Internet will continue to grow and
evolve in the years to come, becoming an indispensable channel of communication
and a catalyst for human evolution.
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