Internet Events

1969 Nov 29 Prediction on Computer and Internet
1981 Early Report of the First Online Newspaper
Channel 4 KRON in San Francisco reports on the first use of the Internet by newspapers. Eight newspapers are in the network. Watch the video and see how much has changed since 198...
1991 Aug 6 The World Wide Web Becomes Publicly Available on the Internet
Nobody was paying attention to Tim Berners-Lee and his pet idea. He was a young British scientist at CERN, a high-energy physics lab in Geneva, and he had a radical new way for scientists...
1995 GeoCities is Founded as Beverly Hills Internet (BHI)
Beverly Hills Internet opened today four additional virtual communities based on real-world locations, raising to 10 the number of interactive "GeoCities"(R) BHI has established in the pa...
1996 Nov eToys is Founded
We are the leading Web-based retailer focused exclusively on children's products, including toys, video games, software, videos and music. We currently offer an extensive selection of com...
1998 Boo.com is Founded
Boo.com was a British Internet company founded by Swedes Ernst Malmsten, Kajsa Leander and Patrik Hedelin that famously went bust following the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. After se...
1998 Flooz.com is Founded
Flooz.com was a dot-com venture, now defunct, based in New York City that went online in February 1999, promoted by comic actress Whoopi Goldberg in a series of television advertisements....
1998 Go.com is Founded
Go.com (also known as The Go Network) is a web portal first launched by Jeff Gold, and now operated by the Walt Disney Internet Group, which is a part of The Walt Disney Company. The port...
1998 Kozmo.com is Founded
Kozmo.com was a venture-capital-driven online company that promised free one-hour delivery of anything from DVD rentals to Starbucks coffee in the United States. It was founded by young i...
1998 Pets.com is Founded
Another important dot-com lesson was that advertising, no matter how clever, cannot save you. Take online pet-supply store Pets.com. Its talking sock puppet mascot became so popular that ...
1999 Gov.Works.com is Founded
Last but certainly not least, the story of GovWorks.com was good enough to become the documentary Startup.com, which chronicles its brief life. Envisioned as a Web site for citizens to do...
1999 Kibu.com is Founded
Unlike the other flops listed here, Kibu.com, an online community for teenage girls, didn't wait till the very end to wave the white flag. In fact, at the time of its October 2000 closi...
1999 MVP.com is Founded
Like Planet Hollywood and Flooz.com, MVP.com proved that celebrity endorsements are worth nothing in the long run. Backed by sports greats John Elway, Michael Jordan, and Wayne Gretzky a...
1999 Webvan is Founded
A core lesson from the dot-com boom is that even if you have a good idea, it's best not to grow too fast too soon. But online grocer Webvan was the poster child for doing just that, makin...
2000 Mar 10 Dot-com Bubble Reaches Peak
Over 1999 and early 2000, the Federal Reserve had increased interest rates six times, and the economy was beginning to lose speed. The dot-com bubble burst, numerically, on March 10, 2000...
2003 Oct AOL Time Warner Drops "AOL" From Name in Wake of Dot-Com Bubble Burst
In 2000, a new company called AOL Time Warner, with Steve Case as chairman, was created when AOL purchased Time Warner for US$164 bn. The deal, announced on 10 January 2000 and officially...
2004 Oct 8 George W. Bush Coins the Term "Internets"
"Internets" is a Bushism-turned-catchphrase used humorously to portray the speaker as ignorant about the Internet or about technology in general, or as having a provincial or folksy attit...
2004 Dec 6 "Numa Numa" First Appears on Newgrounds.com
The Numa Numa phenomenon was first popularized by Gary Brolsma's release of Numa Numa Dance onto Newgrounds.com on December 6, 2004. The video shows Gary Brolsma in headphones lipsyncing ...
2007 Jun 4 Jon "DocEvil" Hendren Coins the Term 'Wikigroaning'
On June 4, 2007, website columnist Jon "DocEvil" Hendren wrote "The Art of Wikigroaning", coining the term wikigroaning. Wikigroaning is a game in which readers explore two Wikipedia arti...
2009 Apr 11 Auto-Tune the News Episode 1 - "march madness. economic woes. pentagon budget cuts" Released
Auto-Tune the News features political pundits, news anchors, and politicians digitally manipulated to conform to a melody, making the figures appear to sing. The series is created by t...
2009 Apr 21 Auto-Tune the News Episode 2 - "pirates. drugs. gay marriage." Released
Auto-Tune the News features political pundits, news anchors, and politicians digitally manipulated to conform to a melody, making the figures appear to sing. The series is created by t...
2009 May 15 Auto-Tune the News Episode 3 - "cuba. afghan friendship. 2-party woes." Released
Auto-Tune the News features political pundits, news anchors, and politicians digitally manipulated to conform to a melody, making the figures appear to sing. The series is created by t...
2009 May 29 Auto-Tune the News Episode 4 - "spa regulation. serbians. sotomayor" Released
Auto-Tune the News features political pundits, news anchors, and politicians digitally manipulated to conform to a melody, making the figures appear to sing. The series is created by t...
2009 Jun 19 Auto-Tune the News Episode 5 - "lettuce regulation. American blessings" Released
Auto-Tune the News features political pundits, news anchors, and politicians digitally manipulated to conform to a melody, making the figures appear to sing. The series is created by t...
2009 Jul 6 Oldest Known Bible Uploaded to the Internet
(CNN) -- The world's oldest known Christian Bible goes online Monday -- but the 1,600-year-old text doesn't match the one you'll find in churches today. Discovered in a monastery in t...
2009 Jul 11 Auto-Tune the News Episode 6 - "Michael Jackson. drugs. Palin" Released
Auto-Tune the News features political pundits, news anchors, and politicians digitally manipulated to conform to a melody, making the figures appear to sing. The series is created by...
2009 Oct 15 Auto-Tune the News #9: Nobel. health care. United Nations.
The Gregory Brothers are well known for a series of YouTube videos, Auto-Tune the News, in which recorded voices of politicians, news anchors, and political pundits are digitally manipula...
2009 Oct 26 Yahoo, Inc. Closes Once-Iconic GeoCities Website
We always imagined how this might end: GeoCities would finally take down all of the animated "under construction" signs, and we'd hear one last Midi file to the tune of horns playing taps...
2011 Jan 11 Verizon iPhone Officially Announced
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Well, some of you, at any rate. Verizon Wireless announced that it will be getting Apple Inc.’s iPhone, as The Wall Street Journal has repo...