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.
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.