World Wide Web

By 21desoto7409@asfm.mx

  • 1989

    1989
    Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while at CERN
    (European Nuclear Research Center), mainly to help physicists
    exchange information

  • 1990

    1990
    World’s first website and server go live at CERN, running on Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer

  • 1991

    1991
    a live shot of a coffee pot so they could tell from their computer screens when a fresh pot had been brewed. Later connected to the World Wide Web, it becomes the first webcam.

  • 1992

    1992
    The line-mode browser launches. It is the first readily accessible browser for the World Wide Web.

  • 1993

    1993
    CERN places its World Wide Web technology in the public domain, donating it to the world.
    Marc Andreessen proposes the IMG HTML tag to allow the display of images on the Web.

  • 1994

    Yahoo! is created by Stanford University. They originally named the site “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.”

  • 1995

    1995
    Microsoft releases Windows 95 and the first version of Internet Explorer.

  • 1996

    1996
    Nokia releases the Nokia 9000 Communicator, the first cellphone with internet capabilities.
    HoTMaiL launches as one of the world’s first Webmail services, its name a reference to the HTML internet language used to build webpages.
    The Dancing Baby, a 3D animation, becomes one of the first viral videos.

  • 1997

    1997
    Google.com registers as a domain.

  • 1998

    The Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) takes over responsibility for the coordination of the global internet’s systems of unique identifiers.

  • 1999

    1999
    MP3 downloading service Napster launches, overloading high-speed networks in college dormitories. Many colleges ban the service and it is later shut down for enabling the illegal sharing of music files.

  • 2001

    2001
    Jimmy Wales launches Wikipedia. Users write over 20,000 encyclopedia entries in the first year.

  • 2002

    networking

  • 2003

    2003
    Apple launches the iTunes Music Store
    Skype, a voice-over-IP calling and instant messaging service, launches
    Professional networking site LinkedIn launches.

  • 2004

    2004
    Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launches thefacebook.com.

  • 2005

    2005
    YouTube is founded on Valentine’s Day.

  • 2006

    Twitter launches. Founder Jack Dorsey

  • 2007

    2007
    Apple releases its first iPhone,

  • 2008

    2008
    Google releases the Chrome Web browser. Apple launches its App Store with 552 applications.

  • 2009

    2009
    Microsoft’s Bing search engine launches.
    The Internet marks its 40th anniversary.

  • 2010

    2010
    Social photo-sharing sites Pinterest and Instagram launch.

  • 2011

    LinkedIn reaches 100 million users and debuts on NYSE.
    Twitter and Facebook play a large role in the Middle East revolts.

  • 2013

    Fifty-one percent of U.S. adults report that they bank online, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.

  • 2015

    Instagram, the photo-sharing site, reaches 400 million users, outpacing Twitter, which would go on to reach 316 million users by the middle of the same year.

  • 2016

    2016
    Google unveils Google Assistant, a voice-activated personal assistant program, marking the entry of the Internet giant into the "smart" computerized assistant marketplace. Google joins Amazon's Alexa, Siri from Apple