The 50 most significant moments of Internet history
Even a list of 50 significant moments is small when discussing several decades of history. Our original list of researched moments contained almost 200 events. Below are some of the ones that made the final list of around 100, but not the 50 you've just seen. You are, of course, encouraged to leave what you consider to be the most important moments in our comments section below. Honourable mentions from "In the Beginning" 1978 - First BBS system online in America 1983 - FidoNet online 1984 - Cisco founded 1985 - .uk domain extension introduced Honourable mentions from "Wiring the Web" 1981 - Hayes Communications creates the Smartmodem 1993 - CNET founded 1994 - First mainstream banner ad with click-through rates used 1995 - Internet Explorer created Honourable mentions from "All About Email" 1982 - Dr Jonathan Postel proposes SMTP protocol 1989 - Lotus Notes email software released 1996 - Microsoft releases Internet Mail and News 1.0 1998 - BlackBerry 850 launches Honourable mentions from "Welcome to the Social" 1991 - AOL begins development of AIM, releasing six years later 1998 - Open Diary launched 2002 - Friendster founded 2003 - MySpace relaunched as social network Honourable mentions from "Online Media" 1991 - First networked webcam set up inside Cambridge University 1995 - RealAudio version 1.0 released 2007 - BBC iPlayer launched 2007 - iTunes launches DRM-free store with EMI on-board Honourable mentions from "Web Property" 1994 - World Wide Web Consortium founded by Tim Berners-Lee 1995 - AltaVista search engine launched 1997 - First instance of BBC News Web site goes live 1997 - Heat.net gaming network starts up 1999 - Goatse.cx shocks unwary surfers 1996 - DoubleClick founded Honourable mentions from "Web 1.0" 1995 - Boing Boing launches as Web site 1996 - JenniCam goes live 1998 - Hamster Dance launches 1999 - WebVan launches, just before epically failing 2000 - Dotcom bubble bursts Honourable mentions from "Web 2.0" 2001 - b2, which became WordPress, is created 2004 - Flickr launches 2006 - Twitter launches 2006 - Facebook abandons college-only approach, allows anyone to join Honourable mentions from "Law and Order" 1994 - Vladimir Levin $10.7m bank hack 2002 - Gary McKinnon arrested 2003 - RIAA mistakenly sues grandma for sharing gangsta rap 2007 - Jammie Thomas fined $220,000 for sharing 24 songs on the Net 2007 - Apple gets ThinkSecret shut down 2007 - AllOfMP3.com is clobbered Honourable mentions from "Most Epic Fails" 2006 - Google accidentally deletes own official blog 2006 - Capcom gang bang URL controversy 2007 - iTunes accidentally leaks Stargate Atlantis Here's to the next decade! Tags: Chapter, information superhighway, Time Magazine, online media, Carnegie-Mellon University
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haewanko says...
I think "The Love Bug" should get a mention in law and order hehehe..
Oct 09, 2008 19:41
I think "The Love Bug" should get a mention in law and order hehehe..
Oct 09, 2008 19:41
blim888 says...
Hey where is the most epic fails category?
Oct 10, 2008 00:45
Hey where is the most epic fails category?
Oct 10, 2008 00:45
dariusctc says...
Hi,
Sorry for the mixup. The images for the Most Epic failures were wrong but the text is correct. We have amended the article. Thanks for the headsup.
Oct 10, 2008 10:41
Hi,
Sorry for the mixup. The images for the Most Epic failures were wrong but the text is correct. We have amended the article. Thanks for the headsup.
Oct 10, 2008 10:41
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