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World Wide Web Day occurs on August 1 to mark the anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web in August 1990. The creator, Tim Berners-Lee of CERN, first proposed the concept of the World Wide Web in 1989. The first proposal for The Web appeared in MacWorld (March 1990), and the first website appeared on August 6, 1991. The founders of the Internet suggested the August 1, 1990 anniversary date.
Critical dates in what we know today as the World Wide Web include:
1990: First commercial dial-up ISP
1991: First web page, content-based search, webcams introduced, and MP3 standardized.
1993: First graphic browser (Mosaic) that regular people could use; White House and United Nations go online.
1995: Netscape develops SSL encryption for financial transactions, eBay and Amazon go online; JavaScript is created and the precursor of social media, Geocities launches.
1996: Web-based email (Hotmail) launches.
1997: Netflix is created.
1998: News media breaks its first story online, rather than in traditional media (Clinton/Lewinsky Scandal); Google and Napster launch.
2001: Wikipedia launches.
2002: LinkedIn is launched.
2003: VoIP via Skype is launched, and MySpace goes live.
2004: Web 2.0 was released, allowing social media giants, including Facebook, to be created.
2005: YouTube launches.
2006: Twitter launches.
2007: iPhone is introduced, and the mobile web is created.
2008: Presidential Candidate Ron Paul uses the Internet to raise over $4.4million in a single day. Birth of crowdsourcing.
2010: iPad is introduced, and the application industry takes off.
2012: Netflix launches Lillehammer, its first original program.
2017: In China, Alibaba generated 25.3 billion dollars in online sales on one day (Singles Day) on November 11.
For anyone born after 1990, a world before the web must seem like a very primitive thing!
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