History of the Web

Birth of the Web

Dec 25, 1990

First successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet, made by Sir Tim Berners-Lee with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

First american Web server

Dec 1, 1992

First Web server outside of Europe set up at Stanford University

Mosaic browser

Mar 1, 1993

NCSA release first alpha version of Marc Andreessen's "Mosaic for X"

Birth of Yahoo!

Feb 1, 1994

David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer. http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html

First WWW Conference

May 24, 1994

First International Conference on the World-Wide Web. http://www94.web.cern.ch/WWW94

W3Consortium

Oct 1, 1994

Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in collaboration with CERN. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/history

Netscape

Oct 13, 1994

Netscape was originally founded under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation, on April 4, 1994, by Jim Clark who had recruited Marc Andreessen as co-founder. The company's first product was the web browser, called Mosaic Netscape 0.9, released on October 13, 1994. It was renamed Netscape Navigator, and the company took the 'Netscape' name on November 14, 1994. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Communications_Corporation

Amazon

Jul 1, 1995

Launch

eBay

Jul 1, 1995

Launch

MP3

Jul 1, 1995

The name %u201Cmp3%u201D is coined. http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/EN/bf/amm/mp3history/mp3history03.jsp

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Aug 25, 1995

The first version of Internet Explorer was not included with Windows 95 when the operating system was officially launched on August 24, 1995. Rather, we were introduced to Microsoft's first Web browser when the Windows 95 Plus! Pack was released
IE History

5th WWW Conference

May 6, 1996

D'Ottavi was there :)
http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW5/Welcome.html

ICQ

Jun 1, 1996

ICQ was established in June 1996 under the name Mirabilis. The founders were four young avid-computer users in their twenties - Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir. http://www.icq.com/info/story.html

Mozilla

Mar 31, 1998

Netscape Communicator source code is posted on the Internet via mozilla.org

Google

Jul 1, 1998

Public launch

Napster

Jul 1, 1999

Napster launch

Blogger.com

Aug 1, 1999

Blogger stato creato da una piccola societ di San Francisco, la Pyra Labs , nell'agosto del 1999. http://www.blogger.com/about

Permalink

Jul 1, 2000

Definition of permalink standard

Wikipedia

Jul 1, 2001

Launch

Del.icio.us

Jul 1, 2003

Delicious launch

MySpace

Aug 1, 2003

Within 10 days, the first version of MySpace was ready for launch. The project was overseen by Brad Greenspan (eUniverse's Founder, Chairman, CEO). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace

Flickr

Jul 1, 2004

Launch

YouTube

Feb 14, 2005

YouTube was created in mid-February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

Web 2.0 Definition

Sep 30, 2005

O'Reilly's paper: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Infoservi.it :D

Jan 1, 2006

Infoservi V.2 started :D

"You" on Time Magazine

Dec 1, 2006

Look at 2006 through a different lens... It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html

Timetoast :)

Jul 1, 2008

Daniel Todd is the creator of Timetoast