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The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) was launched on October 17, 1990
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Tim Berners-Lee, working with Robert Cailliau at CERN, proposed a 'hypertext' system, which is the first start of the Internet as we know it today. Later, Tim Berners-Lee successfully set up the first web server at info.cern.ch on December 25, 1990.
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President Bill Clinton puts the White House and the United Nations online in 1993 and helps start the .gov and .org top-level domains.
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The NCSA released the Mosaic browser on April 22, 1993
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Google was introduced by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1996.
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WebTV was introduced allowing users to browse the web from their TV July 10, 1996
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The first USB flash drives were developed in April 1999 at M-Systems
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RIM released the Blackberry on January 19, 1999.
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The Victoria's Secret fashion show became the first major webcast on the Internet attracting over 1.5 million visitors on February 5, 1999
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The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act became effective on April 21, 2000.