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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a graduate of Oxford University and a computer scientist, invents the world wide web.
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Berners-Lee creates and writes three technologies still used today: HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Uniform Resource Identifier (URI, more commonly known as URL) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
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The World Wide Web is launched to the public and opened for business on August 6, 1991
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- Berners-Lee moves to MIT and founds the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which paves the way for open-web standards.
- Netscape Communications is born.
- Microsoft creates a Web browser for Windows 95. Reference: https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html
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Burgeoning eCommerce begins. Today’s eGiants, like Amazon.com and eBay go live.
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The “browser war” begins and Microsoft and Netscape battle it out.
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Netflix, a site to watch tv series, movies, etc launched on August 29, 1997.
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Web publishing tools are now available, issuing an emergence of blogs.
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Wikipedia launches, the source of all worldly information.
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The blog publishing platform is launched.
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Skype, Safari Web Browser and MySpace launch. In addition, the SQL Slammer worm spread around the world in 10 minutes.
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Facebook launches but only allows collage students to join and Mozilla announces the launch of Mozilla Firefox.
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Youtube launches and the social news site reddit is founded.
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Twitter launches and Facebook opens to everyone.
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Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch instagram (photo sharing) and Evan Sharp, Ben Silbermann and Paul Sciarra create pinterest. Reference: http://www.toptenreviews.com/software/articles/important-events-in-the-history-of-the-world-wide-web/
