During the s, networking research and development also made significant advance. The technical community struggled with the problems of defining and implementing an Internet service model for traffic requiring
real-time constraints, such as continuous media applications. The need to secure and manage Internet infrastructure also became of paramount importance as e-commerce applications proliferated and the Internet became a central component of the world's telecommunications infrastructure. interfaces,
including Marc Andreesen, who led the development of the popular GUI browser Mosaic for X. Andreesen and his colleagues released an alpha version of his browser in 1993, and in 1994 he and James Baker formed Mosaic Communications, which later became Netscape Communications Corporation. By
1995, university students were using Mosaic and Netscape browsers to surf" the Web on a daily basis. At about this time companies -big and small -began to operate Web servers and transact commerce over the Web. In 1996, Microsoft got into the Web business in a big way though lately realizing the huge business potential of the Internet
computers on Internet lEstimated 100 million+ users l
Backbone links running at 1 Gbps
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