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| Internet History Timeline |
A timeline of Internet and World Wide Web development
March 1989
Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal that later became the World Wide Web. They had to do everything themselves initially, such as formalizing the language of documents (HTML), protocols for accessing them (HTTP) and creating the first web browser / editor (which was confusingly named WorldWideWeb).
Later many people joined this project to make it more wonderful.
1991
1. Tim Berners-Lee launched the first web browser and web page. This web page described Web and HTML, which allowed others to create more sites for themselves.
2. Gopher has been released to help people search the Internet using a menu-based interface to a specific content. Later Gopher was replaced by algorithmic search engines such as Google and directories such as Yahoo, but at that time its main job was to find information from the Internet.
1993
Mosaic was released, which was a graphical Web for general public. Marc Andreessen, a creator at Mosaic, created the Netscape Navigator and influenced the creation of the Internet, which was now beyond text.
October 1994
Netscape Navigator was released in beta form. Its official version 1.0 was released in December and this browser became popular all over the world for the World Wide Web.
1995
Secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption has been introduced by Netscape, which has now made online business safe to use credit cards. This innovation helped in the introduction of e-commerce.
September 15, 1997
Google.com is registered as a domain. At the same time, its search engine went live in 1998 and both became big with time.
December 17, 1997
Jorn Barger named this term Web log which used to refer to the collection of online links, which he "logged" from the Internet. This term was later shortened to "blog".
January 9, 2001
iTunes was launched. Apple's online music store changed the music industry. Where each individual tracks were sold for 99 cents.
February 2004
Facebook was launched from a Harvard dorm room. By the end of 2005, this social media site had more than 5 million users and by 2010 it made a user base of about 500 million users.
January 9, 2007
The iPhone was unveiled, which led to the birth of a smartphone in the phone industry, and Mobile Compution slowly became popular.
July 7, 2009
Google announced Google Chrome OS project. This was an open-source project which was the focus for creating a stable, fast OS that users used on the basis of a client interface not for web-based applications to run applications in the local computer.
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