MindSpring is founded in Atlanta with 32 non-paying customers
and eight modems.
July
EarthLink's first member logs onto the Internet through one of
the fledgling company's ten modems.
October
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, founded the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science [MIT/LCS] in
collaboration with CERN, where the Web originated, with support
from DARPA and the European Commission.
