Maastricht Treaty comes into force. Occupation of the Russian Parliament building
Mosaic opens up the Internet treasure chest to ordinary users
Eunet Finland begins commercial sales of Internet connections in Finland.
The Internet has already been accessible to the Finnish scientific community
through the FUNET since 1988.
The FUNET launches a trial 34 Mbit/s ATM network linking Espoo and Tampere.
The United Nations joins the Internet.
Computers start surfing the Web automatically to collect information for
search engines.
Use of the WWW in the USA expands by 341634%, thanks to the easy-to-use
graphics-based NCSA Mosaic browser, and the Internet's takeover of the world
begins in earnest.
The Finnish Commercial Internet Exchange (FICIX) starts to connect together finnish internet-operators.