The way of the Web


1969 
 ARPAnet, the precursor to today's  Internet, is commissioned by the Defense Department. 

1985 
 Symbolics.com is cleared as the first registered domain name. 

1990 
 The World becomes the first commercial provider of dial-up Net access. 

1991 
 The World Wide Web, developed by Tim Berners-Lee, is launched by the CERN research center. 

 Paul Kunz of Stanford Linea Accelerator Center sets up the first U.S.-based Web server. 

1992 
 The term "surfing the Internet" is coined by public librarian Jean Armour Polly. 

1993 
 The U.S. White House comes online. 
 The Mosaic Web browser takes the Internet by storm. 

1994 
 The first banner ads--for the Zima beverage and AT&T--appear on Hotwired.com. 

1995 
 Sun launches the Java programming language. 

 Dial-up systems from CompuServe, America Online and Prodigy begin providing Net access. 

 Netscape Communications sets the third-largest IPO share value ever on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

1996 
 The Web browser war, fought primarily between Netscape and Microsoft, rushes in a new age in software developmentin which new releases are made quarterly.

1998
Google Inc. was found and its search machine revolutionized the Internet

2020
Wikimedia the free encyclopia goes online  

 

Die Way Back Machine

Die Way Back Machine macht Snapshots von Webseiten und speichert diese für die Nachwelt. Wer also Interesse hat wie eine Webseite vor Jahren ausgesehen hat oder ab wann ein Webseite überhaupt online war wird hier fündig.

http://web.archive.org/

Die Geschichte von Google findet Ihr hier