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INTERNET TIMELINE
1996
Browser wars begin. Netscape and Microsoft are two biggest players
1997
business.com sold for $150,000
1999
Shawn
Fanning creates Napster, opening the possibilities of peer-to-peer
file sharing and igniting a copyright war in the music industry.
2000
AOL merges with Time-Warner
2001
A federal judge rules that Napster must remain off-line until it can prevent copyrighted
material from being shared by its users.