The World Wide Web (www) has turned 30 years now. Its been
30 years now when Tim-Berners Lee proposed the concept of www. Now you cannot imagine
how your life would have been without web. It has become a necessity.
For many people web and internet are the same things but
they bout are separate things. Internet is the infrastructure upon which web
runs alongside cloud service, messaging, video calling and many more.
Thirty years have brought lot of changes in web. It has changed 90% from what it was 30 years back. So lets take look at some of the significant events that helped web to become what it is today.
1. March 1989
Tim-Berners Lee wrote a letter to CERN (European
organisation for Nuclear Research) for proposal of World Wide Web. The proposal
was to allow sharing and updating information between researchers working at
CERN.
2. 1990
The first web server and website goes live hosted on
Tim-Berners Lee computer. It described basic feature of web and how it could be
used.
3. August 1991
The first web browser WorldWideWeb (Later Renamed Nexus) is developed
by Tim-Berners Lee for CERN.
4. October 1991
Linus Torvalds created Linux as a free operating system for
web servers worldwide.
5. April 1993
CERN make it web technology available to public.
6. September 1993
The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications Mosaic
browser for windows. It was first browser to display text and images together.
Its availability on windows opened the web for people outside computer science.
7. March 1994
Yahoo goes online. It was directory of other websites
organized in layer of subcategories.
8. October 1994
W3C (World Wide Web conference) was founded. It is official
body for governing on internet.
9. March 1995
The WikiWikiWeb becomes the first wiki, a user editable
website.
10. 1997
SixDegrees.com was launched as first social network. It lets
user create profile and list friends.
11. September 1998
Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
12. 1999
Alibaba is founded by Jack Ma. Blogger is also launched. Blogger
is also launched.
13. 2001
Mike Bergman uses term Deep Web to describe web content that
is not indexed by search engines.
14. January 2001
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger Launched Wikipedia.
15. March 2002
Friendster, one of the oldest social media goes live and
attracts millions of users.
16. August 2003
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis launched Skype.
17. February 2004
Facebook is launched as social network for students of
Harvard.
18. April 2005
First YouTube video “Me at the zoo” is uploaded.
19. March 2006
Twitter is launched. First tweet “ just setting up my twttr”.
20. September 2006
Facebook open up to public.
21. June 2007
Apple brings full browsing experience to mobile for first
time with launch of iPhone.
22. 2008
Bitcoin is launched.
23. July 2008
Google counts 1 trillion unique URL.
24. July 2008
Apple launches the App Store.
25. September 2008
Google launched Chrome browser.
26. April 2012
Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion.
27. February 2014
Facebook buys WhatsApp for $19 billion.
28. February 2015
Vint Cerf “Father of the Internet” warns we are heading to
digital Dark Age.
29. 2016
Mobile web browsing becomes more popular than desktop for
the first time.
30. 2018
Over 40% activity on internet is fake.
31. March 2019
It is estimated that more than 4 billion people(60 % of
world population) is now online.
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