THE WEB

1989 1990 1991

• The World Wide Web • World’s first website and • Researchers rig up a live
begins as a CERN server go live at CERN, shot of a coffee pot so
(European Organization running on Tim they could tell from their
for Nuclear Research) Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer screens when
project called computer, which bears a fresh pot had been
ENQUIRE, initiated by the message “This brewed. Later connected
British scientist Tim machine is a server. to the World Wide Web,
Berners-Lee. it becomes the first
webcam.

WORLD WIDE WEB TIMELINE

 1992
• Tim Berners-Lee posts the
first photo, of the band “Les
Horribles Cernettes,” on the
Web.The term “surfing the
internet” is coined and
popularized.
1993
• CERN places its World Wide
Web technology in the
public domain, donating it
to the world.
• The National Center for
Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA)
releases Mosaic 1.0, the first
web browser to become
popular with the general
public. “The web as we know
it begins to flourish,” Wired
later writes.
1994
• One of the first known Web
purchases takes place: a
pepperoni pizza with
mushrooms and extra
cheese from Pizza Hut.
• Yahoo! is created by
Stanford University
graduate students Jerry
Yang and David Filo. They
originally named the site
“Jerry and David’s Guide to
the World Wide Web.”
 1995
• 18 million American homes are now
online, but only 3% of online users
have ever signed on to the World
Wide Web.
• Amazon.com opens for business,
billing itself as the “Earth’s Biggest
Bookstore.”
• Craig Newmark starts craigslist,
originally an email list of San
Francisco events.
1996
• 77% of online users send or receive e-
mail at least once every few weeks, up
from 65% in 1995.
• Nokia releases the Nokia 9000
Communicator, the first cellphone
with internet capabilities.
• HoTMaiL launches as one of the
world’s first Webmail services, its
name a reference to the HTML
internet language used to build
webpages.
1997
• Millions “visit Mars – on the
internet” – the Jet Propulsion Lab
allows people to watch the Sojourner
rover landing and exploration of
Mars. The broadcast generates about
40 million to 45 million hits each
day.
• Netflix launches as a company that
sends DVDs to homes via mail.
• Go Daddy launches as Jomax
Technologies.
• Google.com registers as a domain.
• Jorn Barger becomes the first person
to use the term “Weblog” to describe
the list of links on his website.
 1998
• 20% of Americans get news from the
internet at least once a week, up from
4% in 1995.
• AOL launches AOL 4.0 and inundates
American homes with CD-ROM
mailers. AOL membership jumps
from 8 million to 16 million
members.
• The Internet Corporations for
Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) takes over responsibility for
the coordination of the global
internet’s systems of unique
identifiers.
• Oxford Dictionary adds “spam” and
“digerati.”
199
• 77% of online users send or receive e-
mail at least once every few weeks, up
from 65% in 1995.
• Nokia releases the Nokia 9000
Communicator, the first cellphone
with internet capabilities.
• HoTMaiL launches as one of the
world’s first Webmail services, its
name a reference to the HTML
internet language used to build
webpages.
1997
• Millions “visit Mars – on the
internet” – the Jet Propulsion Lab
allows people to watch the Sojourner
rover landing and exploration of
Mars. The broadcast generates about
40 million to 45 million hits each
day.
• Netflix launches as a company that
sends DVDs to homes via mail.
• Go Daddy launches as Jomax
Technologies.
• Google.com registers as a domain.
• Jorn Barger becomes the first person
to use the term “Weblog” to describe
the list of links on his website.
 1998
• 20% of Americans get news
from the internet at least once
a week, up from 4% in 1995.
• AOL launches AOL 4.0 and
inundates American homes
with CD-ROM mailers. AOL
membership jumps from 8
million to 16 million members.
• The Internet Corporations for
Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) takes over
responsibility for the
coordination of the global
internet’s systems of unique
identifiers.
• Oxford Dictionary adds “spam”
and “digerati.”
1999
• Pew Research Center tests
online polling with mixed
results.
• 41% of adults are using the
internet and the weather is the
most popular online news
attraction.
• MP3 downloading service
Napster launches, overloading
high-speed networks in college
dormitories. Many colleges ban
the service and it is later shut
down for enabling the illegal
sharing of music files.
• Yahoo! acquires GeoCities for
$3.6 billion.
 2000
• 43% of internet users say they
would miss going online “a
lot,” up from 32% in 1995.
• 78% of internet users who
download music don’t think
it’s stealing to save music files
to their computer hard drives.
• 40 million Americans – or 48%
of internet users – have
purchased a product online.
• 32% of internet users (over 30
million people) sent e-greeting
cards to loved ones and
friends.
2001
• Only 3% of internet users say
they got most of their
information about the 9/11
attacks and the aftermath from
the internet.
• The average internet user
spends 83 minutes online.
• Jimmy Wales launches
Wikipedia. Users write over
20,000 encyclopedia entries in
the first year.
2002
• 55 million people now go
online from work and 44% of
those who have internet access
at work say their use of the
internet helps them do their
jobs.
• Social networking site
Friendster.com launches, but
is quickly overtaken by
Facebook.
 2003
• Apple launches the iTunes Music
Store with 200,000 songs at 99¢
each. The store sells one million
songs in its first week.
• Skype, a voice-over-IP calling and
instant messaging service,
launches and quickly becomes a
verb, as in “Skype me.”
2004
• 11% of American internet users
follow the returns on election
night online. One-in-ten internet
users sign up for political email
newsletters and news alerts
during the campaign.
• Harvard student Mark
Zuckerberg launches
thefacebook.com. 1,200 Harvard
students sign up within the first
24 hours. Facebook goes on to
become the world’s biggest social
networking site, with over a
billion users worldwide.
2005
• Community news site Reddit is
founded. It is bought by Conde
Nast a year later for $20 million.
• Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
buys MySpace for $580 million
and sells it in 2011 for $35
million.
• YouTube is founded on
Valentine’s Day. The first video,
an explanation of what’s cool
about elephants, is uploaded by
co-founder Jawed Karim on April
23. Google acquires the company
a year later.
 2006
• Google acquires YouTube for
$1.65 billion. YouTube
founders Chad and Steve
announce the Google
acquisition in a video
recorded in a parking lot:
“The king of search and the
king of video have gotten
together.”
• Twitter launches. Founder
Jack Dorsey sends the first
tweet: “just setting up my
twttr”
2007
• Apple releases its first
iPhone, priced at $499 for
4GB and $599 for 8G.
• Estonia becomes the world’s
first country to use internet
voting in a parliamentary
election.
2008
• Apple launches its App Store
with 552 applications.
• Microsoft offers to buy
Yahoo! for $44.6 billion, but
the two companies cannot
agree on a purchase price.
• World of Warcraft hits 11.5
million subscribers
worldwide. Guinness Book
of World Records names it
the most popular MMORPG.
 2009
• Twitter raises $98 million
from investors, valuing the
company at a whopping $1
billion.
• The Web is transfixed by the
tale of a six-year-old boy flying
over Colorado in a weather
balloon. The story later proves
to be a hoax.
• Kanye West’s VMA outburst
sparks an internet meme.
2010
• 35% of adults have cell phones
with apps, but only two-thirds
actually use them.
• Social photo-sharing sites
Pinterest and Instagram
launch.
• Wikileaks collaborates with
major media organizations to
release U.S. diplomatic cables.
• Ex-Facebook employees
launch user-based question
and answer site Quora.
2011
• Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5
billion.
• Google+ launches.
• Young Egyptians use the
hashtags #Egypt and #Jan25
on Twitter to spread the word
about the Egyptian Revolution.
The government responds by
shutting down the internet.
• Rebecca Black’s “Friday”
becomes a YouTube sensation.
 2012
• Facebook reaches 1 billion monthly
active users, making it the dominant
social network worldwide. Some
analysts start calling it
“Facebookistan.” The company buys
Instagram for $1 billion and debuts
on NASDAQ at $38 a share.
• South Korean music star PSY’s
“Gangnam Style” video surpasses
Justin Bieber’s “Baby” as the most
viewed video ever, with over 800
million views.
• Ecommerce sales top $1 trillion
worldwide.
• The Internet Society founds the
Internet Hall of Fame to “celebrate
people who bring the internet to life.”
2013 2014
• Former CIA employee and NSA • 45% of internet users ages 18-29 in
contractor Edward Snowdenturns serious relationships say the internet
over thousands of classified has had an impact on their
documents to media organizations, relationship.
exposing a top-secret government • Facebook buys messaging app
data surveillance program. Whatsapp for $19 billion.
• Apple says app store downloads top
40 billion, with 20 billion in 2012
alone.
• Twitter files for its long-awaited IPO.
Shares soar 73% above their IPO
price of $26 a share on the first day
of trading.
 The definition of web page is a document, typically
written in HTML, which is almost always accessible
via HTTP, a protocol that transfers information from
the Web server to display in the user's Web
browser.

WHAT IS A WEBPAGE?
 A website is a collection of Web pages, images,
videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one
or several Web server(s), usually accessible via
the Internet, cell phone or a LAN.

WHAT IS A WEBSITE ?
 An element in an electronic document that links to
another place in the same document or to an
entirely different document. Typically, you click on
the hyperlink to follow the link. Hyperlinks are the
most essential ingredient of all hypertext systems,
including the World Wide Web.

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