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The first banner ad appears. Featured on HotWired.com and promoting AT&T’s telecoms services
Twenty-year-old American student Justin Hall is credited with creating the world’s first internet- based diary
Craigslist, the brainchild of “self-described nerd” Craig Newmark, begins listing San Francisco-area events online.
: The first sales take place on AuctionWeb — or, as we know it now, eBay. They include a broken laser pointer (sold for $14.83),
The world gets its first dating website, the “interactive digital personals service” that is Match.com.
Windows releases its first browser, Internet Explorer 1.0, setting the stage for the so-called “Browser Wars.”
The launch of Hotmail — or as it was then, HoTMaiL — one of the world’s first web-based messaging services to bring free email to the masses.
Release of ‘Dancing Baby,’ a 3D animation of a dancing baby became one of the world’s first viral videos.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin register the domain Google.com, with the aim to “to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.”
Jorn Barger coins the term “weblog” to describe a record, or log, of his online reading. The term is transformed into “we blog” and then simply “blog”
an English version of a Japanese arcade game gives rise to one of the earliest internet memes. What’s more, “All your base are belong to us” goes on to inspires thousands of image-edited versions making it one of the first examples of the Photoshop phenomenon.
One of the first major scandals to be caused by an online leak ensues when the names of British intelligence agents appear on a US-based website. The case sends the UK government into a flurry as it attempts to stop the list circulating, demonstrating how difficult it is for anyone to prevent the spread of information online (hello, Wikileaks!).
Some of the world’s most-used websites, including eBay, Amazon and Yahoo, are hit by the biggest denial of service attack to date. The culprit turns out to be a Canadian teenager who goes by the alias “MafiaBoy.”
Launch of “the Facebook,” designed by Harvard University students. More than 1,000 undergraduates sign up within the first 24 hours. The rest is timeline.
Several of the world’s favorite websites join what’s billed as the largest online protest in history against two proposed US bills that the government says will protect copyright
As the web turns a quarter of a century, founding father Tim Berners-Lee calls for an internet bill of rights to protect web users’ privacy and freedom of speech.