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.
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