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1990
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 -
1991
Researchers created a web cam and as their first example it was a coffeepot. -
1992
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. -
1993
Marc Andreessen proposes the IMG HTML tag to allow the display of images on the Web. -
1995
Microsoft releases Windows 95 which was the first version of Internet Explorer. -
1996
Nokia releases Nokia 9000 communicator which was the first cellphone that had internet capabilities. -
1997
Google.com launches domain. -
1998
AOL launches AOL 4.0 and inundates American homes with CD-ROM mailers. AOL membership jumps from 8 million to 16 million members. -
1999
Yahoo! acquires GeoCities for $3.6 billion. for $3.6 billion. -
2000
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.” -
2001
Jimmy Wales launches Wikipedia. Users write over 20,000 encyclopedia entries in the first year. -
2002
Social networking site Friendster.com launches, but is quickly overtaken by Facebook. -
1994
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.