1991 Web Father, Tim Berners-Lee releases World Wide Web (www) with scientists
from CERN.
1992 America Online (AOL) is launched and raises $23m in floatation.
The term ‘surfing the net’ is introduced by Jean Armour Polly.
The World Bank goes online.
1993 Mainstream media attention increases awareness of the Internet.
First Internet publication. Wired, goes on sale.
Mosaic introduces the first web browser with graphical interface and is the
forerunner of Netscape Navigator.
First online shopping malls and virtual banks emerge as does evidence of
spam.
First clickable banner advert is sold by Global Network Navigator to a law firm.
1995 Amazon is launched by Jeff Bezos.
Trial dial-up systems such as AOL and CompuServe launch.
Charging is introduced for domain names.
Search technology companies such as Alta Vista, Infoseek, Excite and
Metacrawler rapidly appear.