History of the Internet

  • Online Shopping

    Online Shopping
    Michael Aldrich was the inventor of online shopping where later online shopping became very famous.
  • Mainstream Web

    Mainstream Web
    Tim Berners-Lee created the first browserfor the internet which is now used to get onto Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, etc.
  • Music Downloads

    Music Downloads
    The US billboard charts compiled there first legal music downloads such a iTunes and Soundcloud.
  • Social Media

    Social Media
    In this year the first social media site was made called "Geocities"
  • Amazon

    Amazon
    This is the day Amazon first launched their site.
  • Google

    Google
    This day Google was being launched for the first time and now used in everyday events to look up many things on the internet.
  • Paypal

    Paypal
    Paypal was launched and this site is used for many transactions to buy items off the internet.
  • Paypal Buys

    Paypal Buys
    Paypal buys eBay for $1.5 Billion and has been successful with the site ever since
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook was launched at Harvard University by a student named Mark Zuckerberg.
  • Youtube

    In this year Google buys Youtube for $1.65 billion which Youtube is now a main site used to upload and watch videos.
  • iTunes

    iTunes
    iTunes hits 1 billion downloads which is the first to be known as the most downloads at a legal site.
  • Facebook Users

    Facebook Users
    Facebook is known for the biggest website in the world hitting 750 million users in the world.