Based on a 1999 Talk:
Future of the Internet:
A 20th Century View

So, how has the future changed in 2 years?

This earlier talk is at:
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/asset/

See also Hobbes Internet Timeline v5.2

1994 3.8M Hosts

• ARPANET is 25 years old
• Cities and governments go online
• Banks, radio stations, and pizza online
• WWW suprasses Telnet, but still less than FTP
• 23 country domains
• people are typing "domain.com"
• first spamming - by a law firm

• WWW surpasses FTP
• AOL, others, startup
• Internet goes commercial, domains cost money
• Search engines, Java, virtual realities