Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web in 1989. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information sharing between scientists working in different universities and institutes all over the world. The first website ever created was on the 6th of August 1991, and was http://info.cern.ch.
In 1994 Wired.com, then known as HotWired, invents the web banner ad. In Feburary 2005 YouTube was launched. Google was registered in 1998 and Amazon.com was founded in 1994. The term Web 2.0 was coined in 1999, however it did not resurface until 2002. Broadband became widely available in the year 2000.
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