World Wide Web - 1989
The concept “World Wide Web” was first presented by Tim Berners-Lee. He presented his idea 12th of mars 1989 to his boss and he immediately liked it. He worked at CERN, CERN is the biggest particle physics laboratory in the world. CERN stands for European Organization for Nuclear Research (in france it is Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire) and this is not the place where you would guess the first WWW would be made. They immediately made the first WWW the same year. The first website was available to the public 6th of august 1991.
HTML - 1990
HTML which stands for “HyperText Markup Language” is one of the more popular languages to use when building a website. HTML is actually one half of the foundation to the “World Wide Web” together with TCP/IP. Those who came up with HTML is a consortium called W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). HTML is also a language which is easy to connect to other languages, for axample: CSS, JavaScrip, J-Query, Bootstrap and many more.
PHP - 1995
The year is 1994 and Rasmus Lerdolf has made a new coding language, but he eventually changed it using the coding language C. The language he made is called PHP / FI (Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter) the more popular name is PHP. This language was mainly made to run websites and dynamic content on web servers. This language is one of the more popular ones, it is often compared to Active Server Pages (ASP) from Microsoft, or Java Server Pages (JSP) from Sun Microsystems.
Yahoo - 1995
Yahoo started a new era on the internet. Two men, Jerry Yang and David Filo together founded Yahoo in january 1994. Yahoo is the first web portal och search engine, they manually searched around for different websites and added them to their search engine. This was very appreciated and a lot of people used it very often, in 2016 they had 7 billion views per month. Unfortunately they were only at sixth place that year, and the thing they did wrong was how they figured out gain some money from it. They chose to add ad windows at many places. This was not appreciated by the viewers and that’s when google came in to the picture.
Google - 1998
Google is also a search engine just like Yahoo, Google is probably the on you use. There were also two men who founded Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. Both of them were Ph. D. students at Stanford University in California. The thing that Google did better than Yahoo was how they earned money from it. Google workes as if your website have a lot of views you go high up on the list and the other way around. If you wanted to be high up on the list but didn’t get any views you could buy a higher place on the list. This prevented big ad windows lying in the way, that is why the users switched from Yahoo to Google. Today Google isn’t just a search engine they also do: Google Translate, Google Documents, Google Hangout, Google Drive, Google Classroom and many many more.
Zambo.com - 1999
Zambo.com is a website that was made as a parody of all the flashy websites that were popular in the end of the 1990s. It was only an animation of the words: “Welcome ... to ZomboCom. This ... is ... ZomboCom. Welcome. This is ZomboCom; welcome ... to ZomboCom. You can do anything at ZomboCom. Anything at all. The only limit is yourself. Welcome ... to ZomboCom. Welcome ... to ZomboCom. | This is ... ZomboCom. | Welcome ... to ZomboCom! | This is ZomboCom, welcome! | Yes ... This ... is ZomboCom. | This is ZomboCom! And welcome to you, who have come to ZomboCom. | Anything ... is possible ... at ZomboCom. You can do ... anything at ZomboCom. | The infinite is possible at ZomboCom. | The unattainable is unknown at ZomboCom. | Welcome to ZomboCom. This ... is ZomboCom. | Welcome to ZomboCom. | Welcome. This ... is ... ZomboCom. Welcome ... to ZomboCom! | Welcome ... to ZomboCom.” going around.
Wifi Goes Mainstream - 2002
Wifi was actually invented in 1997 but they were really slow and couldn’t reach any far. But in 2002 - 2003 a new Wifi was invented. This one was a lot faster then the previous ones. It also had a lot more reach than the previous versions. At this time the wireless connection was on its way to get as fast as the world's fastest wired connection.
Youtube - 2003
Youtube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. These men had a vision and let nobody stop them, and they were right. They offered free uploading of videos for everyone to see. Just 8 month after they started their company in a garage Sequoia Capital invested 3,5 million dollar in them. That's also when Roelof Botha was hired (Previous CFO of PayPal). Then one year after youtube was founded Sequoia Capital invested another 8 million dollars. The last investment that was made was that google bought Youtube. In October 9th 2006 Google was worth 1,65 billion dollars.