histor of the internet By matthew.wright Feb 27, 1989 Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. Feb 27, 1991 The World Wide Web opens publicly Oct 27, 1991 John Postel becomes the first member of the Internet Society Jul 16, 1995 Amazon.com opens for business Sep 27, 1995 Ebay opens Jan 27, 1996 Google Launched as "backrub" Jan 27, 2001 Internet Domains Exeeds 100,000,000 Apr 23, 2005 First video uploaded to YouTube Sep 26, 2006 Facebook Launches Apr 23, 2012 Internet Hall Of Fame opens Dec 19, 2013 Kathryn Brown named CEO of the internet society