Some Interesting Facts about Internet

1991

AUGUST 6 th : www was created by Tim Bernsley.

DEC 12th : First server started in America.

1993

APRIL 23 : Browser mosaic released in market to work on windows operating systems

APRIL 30 : Web was made available to all.

MAY : First magazine on net The Tech was created by Massachussets institute of technology.

JUNE : HTML -Hyper Text Markup Language was released

NOV : Web cam was created

1994

FEB : YAHOO was created by two stanford university students David Filoo and Jerry Yang. first it was called 'Jerrys guide to world wide web'.YAHOO means Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

OCT 13 : Americal official website http://www.whitehouse.gov/ was started by president Bill Clinton

OCT 25 : Commercial advertisements started on internet.

1995

FEB : First radio station on internet started its 'radioHK'

JULY 1 : Amazon.com ws started for the sale of books online

JULY 4 : Hotmail - Email service started

AUG 24 : Internet Explorer was launched as a part of Windows 95 operating system.

DEC 15 : Multilingual search engine Alta Vista started

1996

AUG : This month world wide websites reached 3,42,081

1997

DEC 17 : Web commentator Jorn Borger created weblog which became Blog later on

1998

SEP : Google was started in a garage in California.

FEB 7 : Eight prominent websites including Yahoo and CNN were closed due to hacking

2001

FEB 15 : Jimmy Wales released online Encyclopedia - Wikipedia.

2003

APR 28 : Apple company 'itunes' started

2004

JUN : Web creator Tim Bernsley was given Britain white hood

NOV 9 : Due to open sourcing revolution, Mozilla Firefox was released

2006

AUG : Total number of websites on net is 9,26,15,362


340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 : can u guess what is this number..................

in next three years there would be this much new websites