Quitely, our internet has celebrated its Birthday. Fifteen years ago, Tim Berners Lee posted a message to the alt.hypertext discussion group about his work on WWW project which aimed to “allow links to be made to any information, anywhereâ€. Rest, as they say, is history. Revisit the timeline to see how it changed our lives: August 6 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases first web software November 5 1992 – 26 web servers online April 30 1993- WWW can be used for free by anyone November 3 1993 – First webcam goes online February 3 1994 - Yahoo written by two students goes online October 13, 1994 – Bill Clinton puts whitehouse.gov on the web August 7 1995 – There are now 18,957 websites online August 9, 1995- Dot com boom begins at NYSE July 4, 1996 – Hotmail launched and becomes instant hit August 7, 1996 – There are now 342,081 websites online Sept 15, 1998 – Google opens its first office in a garage in California October 19, 1998 – “Open diaryâ€, the first Blog committee launched August 16, 1999 – “Everquest†– the first online multiplayer game launched February 7, 2000 – 8 websites hacked for the first time January 11, 2001 – First podcasting November 22, 2001- Pope John Paul II sends first papal e mail April 28, 2003- A music download service launched October 10, 2005 – 17 million new sites go online April 12, 2006 – Google launches restricted service in China called “Gu Ge†August 1, 2006 – There are now 92,615,3662 websites online …………….and counting Source: another board. Thanks