Computer Timeline

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  • HTML-Tim Berners-Lee

    HTML-Tim Berners-Lee
    In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, working with Robert Cailliau at CERN, proposed a 'hypertext' system (HTML), which is the first start of the World Wide Web as we know it today. Later, Tim Berners-Lee successfully set up the first web server at info.cern.ch on December 25, 1990.

  • World Wide Web-Tim Berners-Lee

    World Wide Web-Tim Berners-Lee
    The World Wide Web and the first web page was launched to the public on August 6, 1991. Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN European Partial Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.

  • Windows 3.1-Microsoft

    Windows 3.1-Microsoft
    Microsoft introduced Windows 3.1. It sold more than one million copies in the first two months of its release on April 6, 1992.

  • Wifi-IEEE

    Wifi-IEEE
    IEEE introduced 802.11 the wireless (Wi-Fi) network standard in June 1997.

  • Google-Larry Page

    Google-Larry Page
    Google was created and became the best world wide web search engine

  • Not the End

    Not the End
    Computers continue to work, and the world doesn't come to an end on January 1, 2000, as some feared might happen because of the year 2000 bug.