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About World Wide Web Day
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World Wide Web Day occurs on August 1 to mark the anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web during the month of August, 1990. The first proposal for the Web appeared in MacWorld (March 1990 issue) the first website appeared on August 6, 1991. The August 1, 1990 anniversary is suggested by the founders of the Internet, as this was the month what it would become was first suggested.
The creator, Tim Berners-Lee of CERN, first proposed the concept of the world wide web in 1989. None of these anniversaries nor Lee's birthday fall on August 1. But someone decided today. We cannot find the originator nor tie it to a specific anniversary, which makes this an unofficial event with no sponsor.
Key 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 developed and the prelude to Social Media, Geocities launches.
1996: Web-based email (Hotmail) launches.
1997: Netflix is created.
1998: News media breaks first story online instead of 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 allows for 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: Alibaba generates $25.3 billion dollars in sales in one day, Singles Day November 11, in China.
For anyone born after 1990, a world prior to the web must seem like a very primitive thing!
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