The three-dimensional modelling language, VRML, is created. |
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The monopoly on long-distance telephone calls is ended in
Finland and competition begins, cutting prices for the data
links needed for the Internet.
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A European trial ATM network is launched, which is used to try
out future applications, such as video transmission and
remote working.
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EARN and RARE combine, linking European academic and research
networks into a single system, TERENA, which aims to promote
collaboration but not to build its own network. By this stage,
EARN's NJE network has already begun working 'virtually' across
the Internet, without its own lines. It is gradually wound
down as users go over to the Internet.
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One of the Internet's biggest and best-known subject indexes
comes on-line at WWW.Yahoo.com.
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Use of the Web spreads and overtakes telnet in popularity, only
lagging behind FTP, which is used for file transfer.
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Indiscriminate mass e-mailing of adverts, or SPAMming, begins,
and provokes countermeasures especially in Usenet and operator
circles. But senders of junk mail soon learn to use one-off or
false addresses when sending millions of
"get-rich-quick" adverts, and the like.
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A standard is agreed for 28.8 bit/s V.34 modems.
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