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Michael Aldrich was the inventor of online shopping where later online shopping became very famous.
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Tim Berners-Lee created the first browserfor the internet which is now used to get onto Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, etc.
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The US billboard charts compiled there first legal music downloads such a iTunes and Soundcloud.
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In this year the first social media site was made called "Geocities"
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This is the day Amazon first launched their site.
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This day Google was being launched for the first time and now used in everyday events to look up many things on the internet.
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Paypal was launched and this site is used for many transactions to buy items off the internet.
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Paypal buys eBay for $1.5 Billion and has been successful with the site ever since
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Facebook was launched at Harvard University by a student named Mark Zuckerberg.
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In this year Google buys Youtube for $1.65 billion which Youtube is now a main site used to upload and watch videos.
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iTunes hits 1 billion downloads which is the first to be known as the most downloads at a legal site.
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Facebook is known for the biggest website in the world hitting 750 million users in the world.