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About 42% of Americans have a used computer. Tim Berners-Lee made the first Web browser, World Wide Web. Alan Emtage from McGill university created Archie, a web tool for searching
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Researchers created a web cam and as their first example it was a coffeepot.
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The phrase ¨surfing the internet" becomes popular. Tim posts a first photo of the band “Les Horribles Cernettes” on the web. The line-mode browser becomes the reliable browser for the web.
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Marc Andreessen proposes the IMG HTML tag to allow the display of images on the Web.
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Microsoft releases Windows 95 which was the first version of Internet Explorer.
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Nokia releases Nokia 9000 communicator which was the first cellphone that had internet capabilities.
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Google.com launches domain.
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AOL launches AOL 4.0 and inundates American homes with CD-ROM mailers. AOL membership jumps from 8 million to 16 million members.
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Yahoo! acquires GeoCities for $3.6 billion. for $3.6 billion.
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AOL acquires Time Warner for $165 billion. New York Times says “it could be the internet companies that do the buying and the old media that sell out.”
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Jimmy Wales launches Wikipedia. Users write over 20,000 encyclopedia entries in the first year.
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Social networking site Friendster.com launches, but is quickly overtaken by Facebook.
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Yahoo was created by Stanford University by the students Jerry Yang, and David Filo. Originally it was called Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide web.
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