| 1945 | | | | Pizza Hut initiates an online ordering system. |
| Vannevar Bush writes As We May Think for the | | | | Jerry Yang and David Filo, doctoral candidates at |
| July issue of The Atlantic Monthly suggesting a | | | | Stanford University, create a guide to Internet |
| system of automated information access in which | | | | Sites and by 1998, this guide Yahoo! is the most |
| all materials are "associatively indexed".1960 | | | | visited site on the Web. |
| Project Xanadu is initiated by Ted Nelson with | | | | Mark Pesce and Tony Parisi create Labyrinthe, a |
| the purpose of creating a "docuverse" in which all | | | | 3-D Web interface and within the year, Virtual |
| written documents are interconnected and | | | | Reality Modeling Language (VRML) programming |
| cross-referenced.1965 | | | | language supporting graphical animation of virtual |
| Nelson, who is part genius and part mad scientist, | | | | spaces is created.1995 |
| coins the terms hypertext and hypermedia.1980 | | | | America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy, and other |
| Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the European | | | | online companies begin to offer access to the |
| Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), writes | | | | Web. |
| Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything (ENQUIRE), a | | | | Netscape goes public, serving up the 3rd largest |
| program allowing the hyper linking of files stored | | | | initial public stock offering ever and launching a |
| on multiple computers in a network.1989 | | | | technology boom that has yet to end. |
| Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project | | | | Microsoft, downplaying the importance of the |
| that would connect an infinite number of digital | | | | WWW, decides to create its own online service, |
| documents around the world.1990 | | | | the Microsoft Network (MSN). However, the |
| Berners-Lee develops the first browser, a What | | | | service fails to live up to expectations and at |
| You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) | | | | year's end Bill Gates holds a summit to disclose |
| hypertext reader. | | | | Microsoft's future plans for the Web.1996 |
| The World Wide Web as Berners-Lee decided to | | | | Microsoft releases Microsoft Internet Explorer |
| call it, is launched at CERN headquarters on a | | | | and the "browser wars" begin. |
| NeXT computer, but is only accessible to those | | | | The Communications Decency Act becomes law |
| who have access to the CERN system.1991 | | | | in an attempt to limit the distribution of obscene |
| The World Wide Web hits the Internet and the | | | | and pornographic materials on the Web.1997 - |
| first web files appear at alt.hypertext, | | | | 1999 |
| comp.sys.next, comp.txt.sgml, and | | | | Netscape releases the Communicator Suite of |
| comp.mail.multi-media. | | | | Internet products with Communicator including a |
| Java is brewed at Sun Microsystems. Though this | | | | Web Browser, E-Mail application, newsgroup |
| programming language was originally developed | | | | reader, web page editor, and a conferencing |
| for the purpose of creating embedded | | | | application. |
| applications, in 1994 Sun shifted Java to the Web | | | | Microsoft counters with Microsoft Internet |
| where it revolutionized the way Web sites are | | | | Explorer 4.0 which includes the Active Desktop, |
| designed.1992 | | | | making the Web an integrated part of the |
| The phrase Surfing the Internet is coined by | | | | Windows operating system. |
| Jean Amour Polly. | | | | The Department of Justice takes Microsoft to |
| PointCast Inc begins to offer its news and | | | | court over Internet Explorer, claiming Microsoft |
| information service to corporate networks. The | | | | had violated the terms of a 1994 consent decree |
| service used push technology to transmit specific | | | | by integrating Internet Explorer into the Windows |
| information to end-users. Then in 1996 push | | | | 95 operating system. |
| technology will become a key driver in Internet | | | | Portals become the range on the Web with |
| development.1993 | | | | Yahoo!, Netscape, and Excite offering the most |
| The National Center for Supercomputing | | | | popular. |
| Applications (NASA) releases Mosaic, the first | | | | Netscape announces its Navigator and |
| graphical Web Browser. Mosaic was written by | | | | Communicator products are available as free |
| Marc Andreessen, a University of Illinois at | | | | downloads on the Internet. |
| Urbana-Champaign undergraduate, who as legend | | | | Microsoft counters with free downloads of it's |
| has it, sustained himself on Skittles and Mountain | | | | browser programs. |
| Dew while writing it. | | | | The Web is more popular than ever with 82% |
| The New York Times and The Economist begin | | | | of respondents to a poll by the Georgia Tech |
| to announce the appearance of the World Wide | | | | Research Corp claiming the Web is an |
| Web. | | | | indispensable technology. |
| Traffic on the Web grows by 341,634%.1994 | | | | December 1999 the Department of Justice |
| Andreessen partners with Jim Clark, founder and | | | | announces its decision regarding Microsoft's |
| former chair of the board at Silicon Graphics, to | | | | Operating System and Browser integration.2000 |
| create Netscape Communications Corp. | | | | January 2000 Bill Gates announces his resignation |
| The Netscape Navigator 1.0 browser is released | | | | as CEO and CFO of Microsoft and his return to |
| the same year. | | | | software development.Anand Nadar - Web |
| First International World Wide Web Conference is | | | | Designer and SEO Expert. |
| held in Geneva, Switzerland at CERN. | | | | |