The World Wide Web came online in the year 1990. Today, seventeen years hence, it is an indispensable part of our lives, at least in an urban scenario. Thousands of events have shaped the way this medium has been perceived by users. There have been quite a few 'Eureka!' moments that'll go down in the history of the web as moments that changed it forever, and probably, for the good.
I would like to take you back down memory lane, and chronicle ten of the most significant moments in web history, in ascending order of importance.
1) Yahoo
2) eBay
3) Wikipedia
4) Social Networking
5) Amazon
6) Domain Names
7) Internet Browsers
8) Google
9) Netscape
10) World Wide Web
Yahoo – February, 1994
'Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle', or Yahoo, was the brainchild of Stanford University students Jerry Yang and David Filo. It all started in the month of February 1994 when they posted a list of their favourite sites on the web. By April 1994, Yahoo came into existence, offering directory-style listings of important websites.
Eventually, it revamped itself time and again, developing into a web portal providing search, news, sports, entertainment, email, instant messaging, et al. Despite encountering stiff competition from numerous websites of the same era, Yahoo went on to expand its services and still continues to rule the online world.
The other important moments in this list will be talked about in consecutive blogs. Watch this space to know more about how the web became what it is today.
I would like to take you back down memory lane, and chronicle ten of the most significant moments in web history, in ascending order of importance.
1) Yahoo
2) eBay
3) Wikipedia
4) Social Networking
5) Amazon
6) Domain Names
7) Internet Browsers
8) Google
9) Netscape
10) World Wide Web
Yahoo – February, 1994
'Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle', or Yahoo, was the brainchild of Stanford University students Jerry Yang and David Filo. It all started in the month of February 1994 when they posted a list of their favourite sites on the web. By April 1994, Yahoo came into existence, offering directory-style listings of important websites.
Eventually, it revamped itself time and again, developing into a web portal providing search, news, sports, entertainment, email, instant messaging, et al. Despite encountering stiff competition from numerous websites of the same era, Yahoo went on to expand its services and still continues to rule the online world.
The other important moments in this list will be talked about in consecutive blogs. Watch this space to know more about how the web became what it is today.
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