A brief history of the Internet told to me by 'Internet Age' (2)_html/css_WEB-ITnose

1991: The first web page was born

1991 in There are many major innovations in the Internet world. The first web page was created, and much like the first email explaining what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was.

1991: MP3 becomes the standard

It was also the same year that the MP3 file format was officially accepted as a standard. Highly compressed MP3 files later became a popular format for sharing songs and entire albums over the Internet.

1991: The first camera

One of the interesting inventions of this era was the first camera. It was deployed in a computer lab at the University of Cambridge with the sole purpose of monitoring a coffee pot so that lab users could avoid wasting time on an empty coffee pot.

1993: Mosaic?? The first graphical browser for mass use

The first widely downloaded internet browser was Mosaic, developed in 1993 . Although Mosaic was not the first web browser, it is considered the first to enable non-technical people to surf the Internet.

1994: Netscape Navigator

Mosaic’s first big competitor - Netscape Navigator - came a year later (1994) Published.

1995: The Commercialization of the Internet

1995 is often considered the first year of commercialization of the Internet. Although there were some commercial enterprises that were already online before 1995, there were some key developments during that year. First, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) was developed by Netscape to make online financial transactions (such as credit card payments) more secure.

Additionally, two major online businesses started operating in the same year. The first transaction on "Echo Bay," which later became eBay, took place that year. Amazon.com also started operations in 1995, although it was not profitable for six years and did not become profitable until 2001.

1995: The launch of Geocities and Vatican, and JavaScript

Other major developments during the year were the launch of Geocities (on October 26, 2009 termination). Vatican is also online for the first time.

Java and JavaScript (originally called LiveScript by its founder Brendan Eich, who deployed it as part of the Netscape Navigator browser) were first introduced to the masses in 1995. The next year, Microsoft released ActiveX.

1997: The term "blog" appears

While the first blogs came in one form or another, the word "blog" was first coined in 1997 times used.

1998: Google!

Google was launched in 1998, bringing revolutionary changes to the way people search for information online.

1998: Internet-based file sharing began to take root

Also in 1998, Napster opened the door to the sharing of audio files on the Internet.

2000: The dot-com bubble burst

2000 was the year when the dot-com bubble burst, causing huge losses to a large number of investors. Hundreds of companies were forced to close, some without making a profit for their investors. Nasdaq listed many high-tech companies affected by the bubble, peaking at 5,000 points, then losing 10% of its value in one day, and finally hitting rock bottom in October 2002.

2001: Wikipedia published

2003: VoIP becomes mainstream

2003: Skype was released to the public, providing users with a user-friendly IP voice phone.

2003: MySpace became the most popular social network

Also in 2003, MySpace was released. It went on to become the most popular social network of its time (now replaced by Facebook).

2003: CAN-SPAM Act keeps spam out

Another major development in 2003 was the effort to control unsolicited pornography and marketing messages, known as CAN-SPAM Act.

2004: Web 2.0

Although Darcy DiNucci coined the term "Web2.0" in 1999, it refers to highly interactive and user-driven websites and rich Internet applications ( RIA), which was not widely used until 2004. At the first Web 2.0 conference, John Batelle and Tim O'Reilly proposed the concept of "network platform": application software is built on the Internet and gradually moves away from the desktop (desktop software has the disadvantages of relying on the operating system and lack of interoperability) .

2004: Social Media and Digg

The term "social media" is believed to have been first coined by Chris Sharpley , and in the same year, "Web2.0" became a mainstream concept. Social media websites and web applications allow users to create and share content and communicate with each other on this platform.

Digg, a brand new social news site, launched in November 2004, pioneering the likes of Reddit, Mixx and Yahoo! Buzz. Digg has had a revolutionary impact on the traditional way of discovering and producing web content, with news and website connections all democratically determined by community voting.

2004: Facebook opened to college students

Facebook was launched in 2004. At that time, it was only open to college students and was called "The Facebook". Later, "The" was removed from the name , although it still exists. http://www.thefacebook.com

2005: YouTube?? Streaming video that the public can share

YouTube was launched in 2005 to provide free online video storage , and share it with the public.

2006: Twitter started tweeting

Twitter was launched in 2006 and its original name was twittr (inspired by Flickr); Twitter’s first message was : "just setting up my twtt".

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