Information about internet
[B][CENTER]At a glance: Changing phases[/CENTER][/B]
- 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 [url]www.whitehouse.gov[/url] 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 |
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