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

- 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

- 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

- January 2000: dot-com boom reaches peak

- August 2000: Nearly 20 million websites online

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

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

- July 2004: Tim Berners-Lee receives a knighthood

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