The internet has forever changed the way we get our information. Though the technology has been around for about 40 years it was not perfected until the early to mid 1990's. With the introduction of ISP's such as America Online, Compuserve, general usage of the internet skyrocketed. These companies made it easy to search the web, chat, and use e-mail.
             The internet was not always as easy as technology has made it today. Back in the 1960's the U.S. Department of Defense assigned the ARPA to experiment with linking DOD and military research contractors. ARPAnet was successful and in 1971 sent the first e-mail message "Testing 1-2-3". This was a major breakthrough in technology and would soon change the world forever. By 1971 ARPA would have 100 hosts and, In 1984 Domain Name Servers are introduced and the internet has 1,000 hosts. By now E-Mail was growing at a phenomenal rate. In 1987 the net had 10,000 hosts and jumped to 100,000 in just 2 years. 1992 was the year that the internet started getting a lot of public attention. There were 50 web sites worldwide and 1,000,000 hosts. This was the wave of the future and people started to recognize this.
             In 1993 Marc Andreeson of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications launches the first internet browser Mosiac. By the following year there were 3.2 million hosts and more than 3,000 web sites. 1994 was also the year of the first online order. Pizza hut had an order placed for a mushroom and pepperoni pizza with extra cheese. 1995 was the introduction year for the 3 major companies AOL, CompuServe, & Prodigy which provided access to the internet. These companies made the internet fun and easy. They allowed you to surf the web and use e-mail without having to use multiple programs. It was the internet all in one. Another website launched in 1995 was E-Bay. An online, action market. People can sell their personal items or bid on others, all online
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