Major Events in the History of the Internet and Computers By jessica.trojacek Jan 1, 1976 Steve Wozniak invents the Apple I computer Jan 1, 1980 large universities and the goverment had access to email on the internet Jan 1, 1981 IBM introduces the PC Jan 1, 1990 The internet became viable for the general public The internet became viable for the general public in 1990 Jan 1, 1993 The world wide web became available to the general public Jan 1, 1994 Yahoo! Directory goes online Jan 1, 1998 Larry Page and Sergey Porin invite Google and it goes online Jan 1, 2005 YouTube is founded Jan 1, 2007 Amazon releases the first Kindle Jan 1, 2009 bing is introduced by microsoft