A Brief History of The World Wide Web

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB e At the end of the 1980s, one man's vision of a new way to store and retrieve data launched the technological journey to where we are today. - Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, HTML, and a text browser. He used a NeXT computer to write a global hypertext system and create a hypertext graphical user interface (GUI) browser and "what you see is what you get" editor. - He made up the name World Wide Web. 1990 Eric Bina and others at NCSA displayed first graphical browser, Mosaic. Other browsers were Midas, Erwise, Marc And 1993 Viola and one for Mac. - CERN donated the WWW technology to the world. More than 200 Web servers were online. Two million computers connected to the Internet were used mostly by academics, scientists, and corporate researchers. 1994 - World Wide Web Consortium founded. - More than 1,500 servers were online. David Filo and Jerry Yang created Yahoo. - Amazon.com bookstore appears. - Netscape IPO. - Sergey Brin and Larry Page planned the future Google. - The first wiki was written. 1995 - Microsoft Internet Explorer appeared. blablablabla 1996 - Hotmail was the first Web e-mail site. hotmail - Web had one million sites, entered everyday American life. - U.S. Senate hearings on browser competition. - Blogging began. 1997 1998 Netscape released its code, spawning Mozilla open-source browser. - Google opened and answered 10,000 search queries per day. - Microsoft overtook Netscape in browser competition. - AOL bought Netscape. - Google performed three million searches per day. - Blogger publishing service is launched. 1999 - Seventy million computers were connected to the Internet. The dot-com market peaked, then crashed spectacularly. - Google answered 18 million search queries per day. 2000 - Wikipedia opened. - Google answered more than 100 million searches per day. - Apple released the first iPod. - The file-sharing service Kazaa founded. 2001 Wiki - AOL had 34 million members. 2002 - More than three billion Web pages, New browsers include Apple Computer's Safari and others including Amaya, Camino, Lynx, Opera and Phoenix. - The virtual world Second Life was born. 2003 - MySpace started, - WordPress blog publishing and content management system opens. - Skype voice calling over the Internet begins. - Apple introduces the on-line music service iTunes. - Tenth anniversary of the Web's general availability to the public. - Facebook started collecting friends. - Podcasting commenced. - Flickr image hosting website opens. - Digg was founded. - Mass use of Voice over Internet Protocol – VolP – begins. 2004 - More than eight billion Web pages. Online technology is in two-thirds of American homes. Three-quarters of Americans go online spending an average 12.5 hours there per week. Television viewing declines among Internet users. - YouTube began storing and retrieving videos. Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical Internet site. 2005 - Twitter began issuing tweets. - Google has indexed more than 25 billion web pages, 400 million queries per day, 1.3 billion images, and more than a billion Usenet messages. 2006 2007 - Apple released the iPhone multimedia and Internet smartphone. 2008 - Google released the Chrome web browser. - The Internet has at least 27 billion web pages and could have as many as 58 billion web pages. - They change so many times a day it has become nearly impossible to count. Microsoft's Bing joins Yahoo and Google as major search engines on the Internet. 2009 - Apple released the iPad tablet computer. - It's estimated the population of Internet users is 1.97 billion. - The majority of news consumers use two to five websites per day for news. - The proliferation of spyware, malware, cyber attacks and security leaks concerns Internet users. 2010 - China, India, Russia, Indonesia and Brazil represent about 45 percent of Earth's population. However, their 600 million Internet users are only 30 percent of the two billion Internet users around the world. It's estimated their Internet users will double to 1.2 billion by 2015 while the global total increases to some four billion users. 2012 XL Internet Marketing (XLIM) provides Internet marketing strategies to enhance your online business presence while ensuring that your business reaches out to your desired target audience. Our Services are ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (QMS) compliant. Quality is not an act, its our habit. Sources : http://www2.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/Courses/ResourcesForCourses/WebHistory.html FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT : WWW.XLIM.ORG XL INTERNET MARKETING DELIVERING EXCELLENCE WITH PASSION Ao gmeyCesteomy INFOGRAPHIC CREATED BY WWW.XLIM.ORG