A chronology of the World Wide Web

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A chronology of the World Wide Web -

Today is the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, to celebrate here is a timeline of the past 25 years:

March 12, 1989: British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee circulates his "information management proposal" to the European organization CERN, laying the foundation for the World Wide Web it. release the code to the public on Christmas day 190.

1993 Mosaic, the browser credited with popularizing the Web with an intuitive interface, is developed by a team led by Marc Andreessen at the University of Illinois. Mosaic is the basis for the Netscape browser business in 1994.

1994 China gets first Internet connection, but content filters

  • The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov; some users who enter a .com address end up on a porn site.
  • launches include "David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web", the precursor of Yahoo and Amazon.com.

1995 .. Microsoft launches Internet Explorer, which triggered a "browser war" which eventually kill Netscape

  • The site eBay online auction launched

1996 Finnish Nokia launches first mobile phone with Internet connectivity

1998 Google begins operations, more and more rapidly in the leading search engine.

  • US government delivers the Web domain system of control over ICANN, a private entity

00 :. the Internet ILOVEYOU virus infects millions of computers worldwide, causing billions of dollars in damage and highlighting online security needs.

  • Internet fever causes dominated Nasdaq composite index technology to a record level of 5048, before the bursting of the dot-com bubble, eroding more than 75 percent of the value in 02 the Nasdaq index fails to reach 5,000 over the next 14 years.

01 Napster, a popular music-swapping service, is ordered shutters by US courts in a key decision on the copyright line

02. a denial of service knocks out eight of 13 servers roots that allow Internet connections

05 :. the number of people connected to the Internet tops a billion

07 :. Estonia leads the first parliamentary election in line

2012 :. online trading for 2012 tops $ 1 trillion, according to private surveys

  • the Facebook social network sections. a billion members; A NASA probe Mars check in Foursquare.
  • A global treaty telecommunications is signed by 89 UN member states, countries claiming the US has too much control of the Internet. The United States and 55 other countries reject the document, saying it could lead to government regulation of the Internet

2013 :. Some 2.7 billion people worldwide are connected to the Internet, about 40 percent of the world population. Chinese than English as the dominant language

Source :. Business Insider

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