1989 DAY 0 The Birth of WWW Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau proposed a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet. Berners-Lee invented the Web while at CERN, he developed HTML, HTTP and URIs which have been further refined and form the basis of the modern internet.

1991 DAY 919 Release of Linux Linux was developed by Linus Torvalds, which is the basis for Android and Chrome OS. Linus was also responsible for developing Git, a distributed revision control system. He is a vocal advocate for Open Source software.

1993 DAY 1549 First Microsoft Windows browser released Cello was the first Microsoft Windows browser released and was used at Cornell Law School as Windows access was more widespread amongst lawyers than Unix. As hated as IE? Who knows!

1993 DAY 1635 W3 Catalog One of the earliest web search engines was put online. One of the earliest web search engines was put online.

1993 DAY 1657 Doctor Fun This web comic was created by David Farley and was one of the first on the world wide web. This web comic was created by David Farley and was one of the first on the world wide web.

1995 DAY 2372 WinPlay3 release With the release of the first real-time software MP3 player, many people were able to encode and play back MP3s on their PCs.

1995 DAY 2181 Yahoo incorporated Believe it or not Yahoo were one of the pioneers of the early internet.

1996 DAY 2671 Hotmail goes live Hotmail was bought by Microsoft a year after launch and is now known as Outlook.

1998 DAY 3470 Google goes live Now a household name, since incorporation Google has had rapid growth offering a range of services including email, social networking, cloud storage, mapping and video sharing. They lead development on the Android mobile operating system and Google Chrome. They have recently made rapid developments and innovations in hardware. Remember big brother is watching you.

1999 DAY 3713 First major online leak One of the first major online leak scandals happened when the name of British intelligence agents appeared on an American website -pre Wikileaks!

1999 DAY 3946 Millennium Bug The Y2K bug was something that could’ve caused problems with dates beyond 31st December 1999, as computers often dealt with the last two numbers in a year, making 1900 the “same” as 2000. Very few problems were ever reported and despite my Father’s panic, our home PC was fine.

2001 DAY 4608 First iPod released Thus began Apple’s domination.

2004 DAY 5442 Facebook launches Facebook first launched as The Facebook for Harvard University students, now even your Mum and Granny has one.

2006 DAY 6128 Twitter founded Quite often the source of breaking news the world over.