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the Google search engine (2001) rose to prominence. Its success was based in part on

the concept of link popularity and PageRank. Google, Inc. was established in 1998

300,000,000 computers on the Internet (2001)

Wikipedia (January 15, 2001) began as a complement to the expert-written Nupedia. It is

edited by volunteers in wiki fashion, meaning articles are subject to change by nearly anyone

Network Solutions (2000) was acquired by VeriSign, Inc. for $21 billion.

Drupal (2000)

gwin (2000)

SCTP (2000)

Opera (2000) introduced tabbed browsing

Plesk (2000) released the first version of its hosting control panel

rss (2000) is a family of xml formats

Napster (1999) was the first peer-to-peer file sharing

network. It was developed by Shawn Fanning

Al

ADSL (1999) was introduced in many countries with downstream rates

starting at 256 kbit/s and 8 Mbit/s as the current maximum transfer speed,

MHTML (1999)

MetaFilter (1999)

SOAP (1998)

IPsec (1998)

PayPal (December 1998)

Domain-Tasting

ICANN (September 18, 1998) is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Typo3 (1998)

AudioNet was renamed Broadcast.com (1998)

Hobbes' Internet Timeline was released as RFC 2235 & FYI 32 (1998)

the dot-com frenzy (1998)

the Internet Green and White Papers (February 20, 1998)

the American Registry for Internet Numbers was established to handle administration and (1997)

registration of IP numbers to the geographical areas currently handled by Network Solutions (InterNIC)

Slashdot (September 1997)

MPLS (late 1990s)

Internet2 (1997)

xml (1997)

Macromedia Flash Player (1997)

servlets (1997)

dhtml (1990s)

the Semantic Web (mid 1990s)

the browser wars (mid 1990s)

RTP (1996)

SIP (1996)

IPv6 (1996)

Active Server Pages (1996)

Java 1.0 (1996) was released after five years of development by James Gosling and colleagues

the Internet Archive (1996)

Alexa Internet (1996)

cnet's download.com (1996)

Webby Awards (1996)

server push

ICQ (November 1996)

Ask Jeeves (1996)

POP3 (1996)

Hotmail (July 4, 1996)

the Apache HTTP Server (April 1996) became the most popular server on the net

Netcraft's Web Server Survey

21,000,000 computers on the Internet (1996)

Stephen M. Cohen stole sex.com (1995)

AudioNet (1995)

IPv6 (1995)

ssh (1995)

RealAudio (1995)

Network Solutions was acquired by Science Applications International Corporation (1995)

Craigslist (1995)

Chris Lamprecht (aka "Minor Threat") becomes the first person banned (1995)

from accessing the Internet by a US District Court judge in Texas

MultiTorg Opera (1995)

FrontPage (1995) was initially created by the Cambridge, Massachusetts company

Vermeer Technologies Incorporated. Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft in 1996

VeriSign (1995) is a company that operates a diverse array of network

infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers

eBay (September 4, 1995) hosted its first auction

Internet Explorer (August 1995)

the NSFNET Backbone Service, operating since 1987, was successfully transitioned (April 30, 1995)

to a new architecture, where traffic is exchanged at interconnection points called Network access points

PHP (June 8, 1995) is one of the most popular server-side scripting systems on the net

Robots Exclusion Standard (1994)

Astalavista.box.sk (1994)

SSL (1994)

Search engine optimization (mid 1990s)

webrings (1994)

Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web (April 1994) founded in January 1994 was renamed Yahoo!

chat rooms (19??)

America Online (1994) announced that it had reached 1 million subscribers

Justin Hall (1994) who began eleven years of personal blogging while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally

recognized as one of the earliest bloggers. The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger in December 1997

Amazon.com (1994) was one of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet

the World Wide Web Consortium (1994) creates standards that Web developers should

try to conform to, in order to maximize the ability of others to access their Web sites

Digital Storytelling

CGI (1993)

cnet (1993)

dhcp (October 1993)

the National Information Infrastructure: Agenda for Action (September 15, 1993) was published in the

United States the publication proposes a framework for the creation of a national “Information Highway”

the World Wide Web Wanderer (June, 1993) was a perl based web crawler that was first deployed to

measure the size of the World Wide Web. The Software was developed at MIT by Matthew Gray. Later

in 1993, it was used to generate an index called the "Wandex", providing the first search engine on the web

the Mosaic web browser (April 22, 1993) written at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications,

has been described as "the killer application of the 1990s" because it was the first program to provide a slick

multimedia graphical user interface to the Internet's burgeoning wealth of distributed information services (formerly

mostly limited to  FTP, Usenet and Gopher) at a time when access to the Internet was expanding rapidly outside 

its previous domain of academia and large industrial research institutions. The company producing the software was

founded as Mosaic Communications Corporation on April 4, 1994 by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark, and was

the first company to attempt to capitalize on the nascent World Wide Web. It released a web browser called

Mosaic Netscape 0.9 on October 13, 1994. This browser was subsequently renamed Netscape Navigator,

and the company took on the 'Netscape' name on November 14, 1994. In January 1998 Netscape open sourced

 its Web browser as the Mozilla Project. On November 24, 1998 America Online announced it would acquire

Netscape Communications in a tax-free stock-swap valued at US$4.2 billion at the time of the announcement

Wired magazine (March 1993)

InterNIC was created by the NSF to provide specific Internet services (1993)

CGI (1993)

Typosquatting

Cybersquatting

Network Solutions, Inc. (1992) was granted an exclusive contract by the National Science

Foundation to be the sole Domain name registrar for .com, .net and .org Top Level Domain names

the Internet Hunt was started by Rick Gates (1992)

the Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog by Ed Krol (1992)

Zen and the Art of the Internet by Brendan Kehoe (1992)

the term "surfing the net" (1992) was coined by Jean Armour Polly

1 million computers online (1992)

the Internet Society (1992) is the parent corporation of the Internet

Architecture Board and the Internet Engineering Task Force

web crawler

the Gopher protocol (1991)

mapi (1991)

the SupraFax 14400 (1991) ran at the 14.4 kbit/s rate

the Trojan room coffee pot (1991) was the inspiration for the world's first webcam

the first web page (August 6, 1991)

Pretty Good Privacy (1991)

phishing (1990s)

the Archie search engine (1990)

the www (1990) as well as http, html and urls were invented by Tim Berners-Lee at Cern

the first dial-up internet service provider (1989) was world.std.com

100.000 computers online (1989)

the Morris worm (November 2, 1988)

IRC (August 1988)

e-mail clients (1988)

most dialup modems follow the Hayes Command Set (1988) it was originally developed for the Hayes Smartmodem 2400

10.000 computers online (1987)

Fred the Computer (1987)

IMAP (1986)

WELL (1985)

the File Transfer Protocol (October 1985) was first developed in 1971 for

implementation on hosts at M.I.T. In 1985 ftp was defined by the RFC 959 documnet

dfn (1984)

LISTSERV was the first electronic mailing list software application (1984)

FidoNet (1984) was started by Tom Jennings of San Francisco, California as a means to

network together BBSes or mailboxes (like MausNet) that used his own "Fido" BBS software

Whois (early 1980s)

Symbolics.com

the Domain Name System (1984) was introduced by Paul Mockapetris.

Symbolics.com became the first registered commercial domain name

ping (December, 1983)

Kerberos (1983)

Name server (1983)

the Internet Activities Board (1983) replaced the ICCB

the TCP/IP protocol (January 1, 1983) began to be used for ARPAnet and the Defense Data Network

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emoticons (1982)

Minitel (1982)

Bitnet (1981)

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (1980s)

Cascading Style Sheets (1980)

SGML (1980)

Ethernet (1980)

Tim Berners-Lee (1980) wrote a hyperlinking program called

Enquire which eventually evolved into the World Wide Web

the first router was created at Stanford University (January 1980) by a staff researcher named William Yeager

ARPA established the Internet Configuration Control Board (1979)

delivermail (1979)

Usenet (1979)

TCP split into TCP and IP  (March 1978)

UUCP (1978) stands for Unix to Unix Copy Protocol, and is a computer program and protocol allowing remote

execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between Unix computers not connected to the Internet proper

the OSI model (1977)

public key infrastructure (1976)

the name internet was coined (1974) by Vint Cerf and

Bob Kahn in a paper on Transmission Control Protocol

BBN opened Telenet, the first public packet data service (a commercial version of ARPANET) (1974)

RFC 527: ARPAWOCKY (1973)

Project Gutenberg (1971)

ARPANET hosts started using Network Control Protocol (1970)

Requests for Comments (1969)

the 4-node ARPAnet (December 1969) UCLA, Stanford Research Institute,

University of California Santa Barbara and University of Utah

the ARPAnet (October 29, 1969)

CICS (1969)

Compuserve (1969) was founded as a company in the computer time-sharing industry

x25 (late 1960s)

J. C. R. Licklider's Libraries of the future (1965) hinted at the Internet and World Wide Web of the future

Paul Baran's paper on packet-switching (1962)

the Galactic Network concept (1962)

Project Xanadu (1960) was founded by Ted Nelson as the original hypertext project

the USSR launched Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite. In response, the US formed the Advanced Research Projects Agency (1958)

within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military

Vannevar Bush's essay As We May Think (July 1945)

the World Brain by  H.G. Wells (1938)