Arvutivõrkude eksami konspekt
everyone’s home. It consisted of a public packet-switched network, Minitel servers and
inexpensive terminals with built-in modems (that were slow af). It proved to be tremendously
successful, as the French government gave away a free Minitel terminal to each French
household that desired one (people love free stuff).
1990s
Coming soon - the commercialisation of the Internet. ARPAnet ceased to exist. In 91
NSFNET lifted its restrictions and was made available for commercial purposes. It was
decomissioned in 95 as Internet backbone traffic was handed over to ISPs.
The main grand (actually important) event was the emergence of WWW application, which
became the gateway to make the Internet accessible to nearly everyone (previously used by
the military or universities to exchange research). It made it possible to deploy several
application without which, us university students, would be long dead like search engines,
online stores and social networks (what else do you need?).