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Shift in computer graphics
The shift in using computer graphics to more realistic appearance & for entertainment purposes as well as utilitarian needs. The beginning of widely used digital audio by industry -
Adobe Photoshop 1.0
Adobe Systems released a raster graphics editor called Photoshop 1.0. The program was only available for certain software and was somewhat buggy to use. -
Archie - The first search engine
Three university students Alan Emtage, Peter Deutsch, and Bill Helen launched a search engine called Archie. The search engine enabled its users to find and download specific files on the Internet. Its name comes from the word archive, dropping the letter v. Archie is often considered to be the world's first Internet search engine ever. At the end of the 1990s, the search engine gradually ceased to exist. -
WorldWideWeb - The first browser
At CERN, a Swiss research center, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb. The browser was also a simple editor for editing web pages. Later, the browser was renamed Nexus to avoid confusion with the World Wide Web (WWW). -
The first web server in the USA
A particle physicist and software developer Paul Kunz launched the first web server in the USA. Paul Kunz was inspired by the World Wide Web project directly from its creator Tim Berners-Lee, whom he met in person at the CERN Swiss Research Center in September of the same year. -
Yahoo!
Jerry Yang and David Filo, two Ph.D. students from Stanford University, created a list of websites entitled "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." In March 1994, the portal was renamed Yahoo! and the yahoo.com domain was registered on January 18, 1995. Yahoo is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”. In March 1995, the Yahoo! search engine was launched as part of the portal. Then Yahoo was officially born! -
The first web banner
The AT&T Telecommunications Company placed the first web banner in Internet history on a magazine website. The first web banner in the world was 476x56 px and contained only the phrase "Have You Ever Clicked Your Mouse Right Here?". Clicking on the banner led to a virtual tour of world galleries and museums. -
Amazon.com
Amazon, founded by Jeff Bezos, launched one of the first online stores on Amazon.com on July 5, 1994. Amazon first began as an online bookstore and later expanded its range of products to CDs, DVDs, software, clothes, toys, etc. In 2002, Amazon started running a cloud platform called Amazon Web Services (AWS), and as of November 2007, the Amazon Kindle e-reader belongs to one of its major products. It is now one of the most successful companies in the world. -
Internet Explorer 1.0
Microsoft released the Microsoft Plus! Internet Jumpstart Kit for Windows 95, which included Internet Explorer 1.0. In the original version of Windows 95, a web browser was not available, as Microsoft underestimated the potential of the rapidly developing Internet. Internet Explorer 1.0 occupied only 1 MB of disk space and its features were considerably limited compared to other browsers at the time. -
Google
A pair of Ph.D. students from Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created the Google search engine. Google originally started as a research project whose aim was to find relevant search results using a mathematical algorithm. The name Google is a deliberate misspelling of the word googol, which refers to a very high number. -
Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded Wikipedia, an internet encyclopedia. The content of the encyclopedia is shared under a free and open license of the Creative Commons. Volunteer contributors from around the world participate in the creation of Wikipedia entries. Wikipedia’s inspiration was the Nupedia web encyclopedia, to which, unlike Wikipedia, only experts were allowed to contribute. At the beginning of 2018, Wikipedia contained articles written in nearly 300 languages. -
MySpace
MySpace became a place for users to create their own profiles and connect with other online users. But even more, they allowed their users access to HTML editors in order to customize their profiles. Many aspiring web designers got their early exposure to HTML using the MySpace platform. -
YouTube
Three former PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, launched the YouTube website for publishing and sharing video files. The first video called "Me at the zoo" was uploaded to YouTube on 23 April 2005 by one of the co-founders, Jawed Karim. It was a short video from the San Diego zoo. In November 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $ 1.65 billion. -
Google Chrome
Google released the beta version of Google Chrome's freeware browser for Windows. In December 2008, the first stable version of Google Chrome 1.0 was released. At the turn of April and May 2012, Chrome surpassed the popularity of Internet Explorer and became the most widely used web browser. In 2018, Google Chrome had more than 66% of the global market share. -
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft released the first version of the Microsoft Edge web browser for Windows 10. Microsoft Edge was subsequently included as a default browser on Windows 10 Mobile and Xbox One operating systems, definitively replacing the older Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer Mobile browsers.
