The Internet

By mruiz17

  • The start of the world wide web began as a project started by a European Organization for Nuclear Research

    The start of the world wide web began as a project started by a European Organization for Nuclear Research
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  • The start of the world wide web began as a project started by a European Organization for Nuclear Research

  • 42% of American Adults have used a computer

  • Tim Berners-Lee developed the first developes the first web browser (WorldWideWeb)

  • The term “surfing the internet” is coined and popular

  • Marc Andreessen proposes the IMG HTML tag to allow the display of images on the Web

  • 11 million American households have access to the internet

  • Amazon.com opens and begins by selling books

  • Microsoft releases windows 95 and they release the first version of internet explorer

  • Netflex launches and begins to send dvd's to people's homes through mail

  • 20% of Americans get news from the internet at least once a week

  • Napster, a highspeed mp3 downloading service is launched, but later taken down for allowing illegal music file sharing

  • AOL buys Time Warner for $165 billion dollars

  • 55 Million Americans use the internet in their jobs

  • Microsoft releases XBOX Live, a service in which people are able to play multiplayer games on the internet

  • Apple launches iTunes Music store, where over 200000 songs were available for 99 cents each

  • Skype is launched. At the moment it was only used for voice calls

  • Mark Zuckerberg lauches thefacebook.com

  • Google starts trading stocks at $85 dollars a share

  • YouTube is founded

  • Broadband takes over internet providing, leaving dial up connection behind

  • Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion

  • Twitter is launched

  • 36% of Americans use Wikipedia for research

  • Google launches Google Chrome, a web browser

  • Apple releases The App Store which included 552 apps available for downloading

  • Twitter gains $98 million from investors

  • Microsoft launches Bing web search engine

  • Kanye West's interruption during the VMA's becomes an internet sensation, especially with memes

  • Kik is founded. Later used by saying, "you got kik"?

  • Photo sharing apps such as Instagram and Pinterest launch

  • Egyptians use the hashtag #egypt and #Jan25 to spread awareness to the Egyptian revolution

  • Microsoft buys Skype for 8.5 billion

  • Facebook receives 1 billion active users

  • 66% of people who use the internet use Facebook and 12% use Instagram

  • Online Banking is use by 51% of American adults

  • 45% of people of the ages 18-29 say the internet has impacted their relationship

  • Facebook buys Whatsup (messaging app) for $19 billion