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