History Of Internet

At a glance: Changing phases
- August 1991: Tim Berners-Lee releases web software.



- December 1991:First web server outside Europe goes online.



- November 1992: 26 servers now online.



- April 1993:Mosaic web browser from Windows released. World Wide Web (www) made available to all for free.



- May 1993: First online newspaper, the Tech published by students from MIT, launched. http://www-tech.mit.edu



- June 1993: HTML programming, used to create WebPages, released.



- October 1994: Bill Clinton puts www.whitehouse.gov on the web. Netscape browser released.



- February 1995: Radio HK becomes first dedicated online radio station.



- July 1995:Amazon.com launched.



- August 1995: Internet Explorer released along with Windows95.




- September 1995: Ebay.com launched.



- July 1996: Hotmail launched.



- December 1997:Term "blog" coined, meaning weblog.



- September 1998:Google opens first office in a garage in California.



1999-Napster.com launched.



- January 2000: dot-com boom reaches peak.



- August 2000: Nearly 20 million websites online.



2001-Wikipedia launched.



- November 2001: Pope John Paul II sends first papal e-mail.



2003-MySpace launched.



- April 2003: Apple's itunes music download service launches.




2004-Firefox-launched.



- July 2004: Tim Berners-Lee receives a knighthood.



2005-YouTube-launched.



- August 2006: There are now over 92,615,362 websites online.