History of the World Wide Web

The history of the Internet can be best presented through a timeline of events which shaped the history of humankind and made today look the way it is. Many things that we now take as granted were at some point a great technological development, and in this short history of World Wide Web, it is necessary to point out many things which caused an extreme and rapid growth on the field. You may be a part of history and not even anticipate it.

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1989

March 12: Tim Berners-Lee proposed a “distributed information system” meant to help researchers deal with huge amounts of information generated by complex physics experiments.

1990

December 20: The first website published at Info.cern.ch.

1991

August 6: The World Wide Web is publicly launched with Berners-Lee details of the project.

1992

March: Pipex presents dial-up internet connection to the UK

1993

April 30: Cern presents the World Wide Web source code and claims it will be free.

1994

May 25 – 27: First International World-Wide Web Conference, at CERN – named the “Woodstock of the web.”

1995

July 16: Jeff Bezos presents Amazon.com, an online bookshop managed from computers in his garage in Seattle, Washington. Today it is the world’s largest online retailer.

August 16: Microsoft´s first version of Internet Explorer web browser.

1997

September 15: Larry Page and Sergey Brin register Google.com as a web domain.

2000

March: Virgin introduces high-speed broadband internet connections to the UK.

2004

February: Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook to connect students at the University.

2005

November: YouTube, a video-hosting website is launched. Today, 100 hours of footage is uploaded every minute.

2006

March: Twitter Inc is developed by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass. The first tweet was sent on March 21.

2007

January 9: The iPhone is launched.

2008

July 10: Apple presents the App Store.

2010

April 23: Apple introduces the world´s first tablet – the iPad.
October: Instagram is launched.

2012

April: Instagram was sold to Facebook for 1 billion dollars.

2014

February 20: Facebook buys a mobile phone messaging system WhatsApp for 19 billion US dollars.
April: A coding error discovered in OpenSSL, encryption software which guarantees transactions between a computer and a remote secure. This error makes users vulnerable to having their usernames, passwords, and personal information was stolen.

2015

September 26: Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the 70th annual U.N. General Assembly session, to increase awareness and garner support for the initiative One which is an organization that is trying to end extreme poverty and preventable disease.

2016

December 14: Yahoo announced that 1 billion Yahoo accounts were hacked in August 2013 before it was acquired by Verizon.