1990 to 2000 Timeline Outline

The First "Search Engine" but Not a "Web Search Engine"
(1990)

The American Memory Project
(1990)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is Founded
(1990)

Coalition for Networked Information
(1990)

ARPANET Folds into the Internet
(1990)

TED: Technology, Entertainment and Design
(1990)

Sirius Satellite Radio is Founded
(July 1990 – July 2002)

Encoded Sculpture
(November 3, 1990)

Berners-Lee Plans the World Wide Web
(November 12, 1990)

The First Web Page
(November 13, 1990)

The First Web Browser and Web Server
(December 25, 1990)

"Clearing the Way for Electronic Commerce"
(1991)

The PDF
(1991)

TrueType Fonts
(1991)

Expressed Sequence Tags
(1991)

The First Webcam
(1991)

The WAIS System for Searching Text is Introduced
(1991)

Junk Faxes are Outlawed
(1991)

Typography, Personal Computer Style
(1991)

First Release of the First Web Browser
(March 1991)

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
(March 26 – March 28, 1991)

The First GSM Cellular Phone Call
(March 27, 1991)

The Beginning of the Linux Open-Source Operating System
(April – August 26, 1991)

2G Cellular Telecom
(July 1, 1991)

Berners-Lee Makes Web Server and Web Browser Software Available at No Cost
(August 6, 1991)

The Gopher Protocol
(September 1991)

The Unicode Standard: Now 107,000 Charcters in 90 Scripts
(October 1991)

One of the First U.S. Cases in Cyberspace Law
(October 29, 1991)

The First Web Server in North America
(December 12, 1991)

The First Image Posted to the Web
(1992)

There are 50 Web Servers on the Internet
(1992)

The Internet Society
(1992)

Venter Founds TIGR
(1992)

Pioneering Collaboration of Electronic Librarianship, Journalism and Telecommunications
(1992)

The Memory of the World Program
(1992)

The Data Discman Electronic Book Device
(1992)

Visions of a Metaverse
(June 1992)

Neil Papworth Sends the First SMS Text Message
(December 3, 1992)

Scalable Parallel Systems
(1993)

341,634 Percent Growth Rate on the Internet
(1993)

The Electronic Dewey
(1993)

Preserving Access to Digital Information
(1993)

First Library of Digital Images on the Internet
(1993)

The First Successful Online Bookseller Service
(1993)

Perhaps the First Law Review Symposium Dedicated to Cyberspace
(1993)

Only About 2000 People in China Use the Internet
(1993)

W3C
(1993)

The First Successful Telepresence Company
(1993)

The Electronic Beowulf
(1993)

Jurassic Park
(1993)

The Web's First and Longest Continuously Running Blog
(1993)

Development of Neural Networks
(1993)

Estimate of Total Internet Traffic in 1993
(1993)

There are 250 Web Servers on the Internet
(1993)

Statistical Machine Translation
(1993)

The Singularity
(January 1993)

The First Television Series to Use Computer Generated Images
(February 22, 1993 – January 26, 1994)

Wired 1.01
(March 1993)

The Mosaic Web Browser
(March 4, 1993)

The First Tablet Computer with Wireless Connectivity
(April 1993 – July 1994)

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
(April 1, 1993)

The First Graphics-Based Web Browser
(April 22, 1993)

CERN Releases Rights to World Wide Web Software
(April 30, 1993)

The First Commercial Website with the First Online Advertising
(May 1993)

The First Web Search Engine?
(June 1993)

The Beginning of Video Webcasting over the Internet
(June 1993)

The First Digital Offset Press
(July 1993)

The Size and Growth Rate of the Internet in 1993
(November 3, 1993)

The First Web Search Engine?
(November 30, 1993)

The First Sourcebook on Digital Libraries?
(December 6, 1993)

Situational Aspects of Electronic Libraries
(December 21, 1993)

There are 2500 Web Servers and 10,000 Websites
(1994)

NSF Digital Libraries Initiative
(1994)

World Wide Web Worm
(1994)

Internet Traffic Passes 10 Trilliam Bytes per Month
(1994)

HTTP Packets Surpass FTP Traffic
(1994)

NSFNET Reverts to a Research Network
(1994)

Wireless Internet Access
(1994)

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
(1994)

From Webspace to Cyberspace
(1994)

Match.com
(1994)

FishCam: The Oldest Nearly Continuously Operational Webcam
(1994)

The First Marketing on the Internet Seminar Series
(1994)

Chinook, a Computer Checkers Program, Defeats the Human World Checkers Champion
(1994)

Daily Audited Circulation Greater Than Ten Million Printed Copies
(1994)

"Death by Government" Statistics 1900-1987
(1994)

One of the Earliest Guided Tours of the Web
(January 1994)

First Consumer-Priced Digital Camera
(February 17, 1994)

Selling Wine without Bottles
(March 1994)

Digital Library: Gross Structure and Requirements
(March 1, 1994)

The First Internet Cafe
(March 12 – March 13, 1994)

Yahoo! Founded
(April 1994 – January 18, 1995)

The First Company to Exploit the Economic Potential of the Web
(April 4, 1994)

Commercial Spaming Starts with the "Green Card Spam"
(April 12, 1994)

The First Full Text Web Search Engine
(April 20, 1994)

The Digital Library Federation is Founded
(May 1, 1994)

First Internet Radio Broadcast
(May 3 – May 5, 1994)

The First International Conference on the World Wide Web
(May 25 – May 27, 1994)

HTTP Cookies
(June 1994)

The First Web Analytics Vendor
(June 1994)

The Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
(June 19 – June 21, 1994)

Amazon.com is Founded
(July 1994 – July 1995)

Whitehouse.gov
(October 1994)

The National Digital Library Program is Announced
(October 13, 1994)

The First Commercially Available Web Browser
(October 13, 1994)

Steve Jackson Games v. U.S. Secret Service
(October 31, 1994)

The Rolling Stones Present the First "Cyberspace Multicast Concert"
(November 1994)

The First Traditional Radio Station to Initiate Internet Broadcasts
(November 7, 1994)

The First Internet Only Broadcast of a Live Band
(November 10, 1994)

Task Force on Digital Archiving
(December 1994)

PlayStation
(December 3, 1994)

Probably the First For-Profit Social Networking Site
(1995)

The First Web Page Tagging System
(1995)

There are Approximately 73,500 Servers; WWW is Generally Equated with the Internet
(1995)

Online Searchable Archive of Over 1000 Academic Journals
(1995)

The Bureau of Labor Statistics Begins Publishing on its Website
(January 1995)

Free Online Classified Advertisements
(March 1995)

The First Wiki
(March 25, 1995)

Apache HTTP Server is Released
(April 1995)

The Book and Beyond
(April 7 – October 1, 1995)

Network-Based Scholarly Publishing
(June 1995)

D-Lib Magazine
(July 1995)

The Beginning of the "Dot-Com Bubble"
(August 9, 1995)

eBay is Founded
(September 3, 1995)

The First Television Show Broadcast over the Internet
(November 23, 1995)

Altavista
(December 15, 1995)

968,735 New Different Printed Books Are Produced This Year
(1996)

Abebooks.com
(1996)

The Kulturarw3 Project
(1996)

Brewster Kahle Founds the Internet Archive
(1996)

The IBM DB2 Universal Database
(1996)

More Email is Sent than Paper Mail
(1996)

There are 100,000 Websites
(1996)

Speech Recognition Technology from 6,700 Characters
(1996)

LexisNexis Exceeds One Billion Documents
(1996)

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
(1996)

The World's Smallest Book, in 1996
(1996)

The First Access to the Mobile Web
(1996)

A Search Engine Initially Called "BackRub"
(January 1996)

Cyberpsychology
(January 1996)

First Recorded Use of the Term, Phishing
(January 2, 1996)

www.nytimes.com
(January 19, 1996)

The First ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries
(March 20 – March 23, 1996)

Searchenginewatch.com Begins
(April 1996)

The First Full-Time Online Webcam Girl
(April 1996 – 2003)

The First Public HDTV Broadcast in the United States
(July 23, 1996)

DVDs are Introduced.
(September 1996 – March 1997)

U.S. Call to Arms for the Cyber Wars
(November 1996)

The WIPO Copyright Treaty
(December 20, 1996)

126,000,000 Metric Tons of Paper Consumed
(1997)

The Internet2 Consortium
(1997)

IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries
(1997)

California Digital Library
(1997)

sixdegrees.com: An Early Social Networking Site
(1997)

How Much Information is There?
(1997)

Rome Reborn on Google Earth
(1997)

The First Web Analyzer with Drill-Down and Ad-Hoc Analysis
(1997)

BnF Gallica is Launched
(1997)

Electronic Paper by E Ink Corporation
(1997)

The FBI Implements Carnivore
(1997 – 2002)

The First Museums and the Web Conference
(March 1997)

The JPEG 2000 Standard for Still Images
(March 17, 1997)

There are 1,000,000 Websites
(April 1997)

RLG DigiNews Begins Publication
(April 15, 1997)

IBM Deep Blue Defeats Gary Kasparov
(May 11, 1997)

WAP
(June 1997)

The Internet is Entitled to the Full Protection Given to Printed Material
(June 26, 1997)

DNS is Corrupted Through Human Error
(July 1997)

Digital Scriptorium
(November 1997)

Altavista Claims 20,000,000 Queries Per Day
(November 1997)

Virtual Medical Worlds
(November 1997)

W3C Releases XML
(1998)

Voice Over Internet Protocol
(1998)

The Average Person Receives 733 Pieces of Paper Mail Each Year, Half of Which is Junk
(1998)

MP3
(1998)

Printing about the Handpress Using Photo-Offset
(1998)

Origins of Australia's Web Archive
(1998)

NARA Begins ERA for Preservation of Digital Archives
(1998)

The Cluetrain Manifesto
(1998)

The First Long Distance Transmission of One Terabit per Second
(1998)

The Last Printed Edition of Beilstein is Published
(1998)

"You've Got Mail"
(1998)

Using Neural Networks for Word Sense Disambiguation
(1998)

On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age
(1998)

700,000 New Book Titles Are Published in 1998
(1998)

The Digital Michelangelo Project
(1998)

The First Continuous Live Webcasts
(January 1998)

PageRank is Published on Paper
(January 29, 1998)

The Bibliometrics of Science
(February 14, 1998)

Venter Founds Celera Genomics
(May 1998)

MSN Search
(Circa September – December 1998)

Google is Founded
(September 7, 1998)

ICANN is Founded
(September 30, 1998)

The Digital Millenium Copyright Act
(October 12, 1998)

Supercomputer ASCI Blue-Pacific SST
(October 28, 1998)

MyFamily.com
(December 1998)

Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Promulgated
(December 1998)

Where's George?
(December 23, 1998)

64,711 New Books on Paper are Published in the U.S.
(1999)

Storing Public Records Electronically
(1999)

Computers Have Not Caused a Reduction in Paper Usage or Printing
(1999)

Domain Names are Property
(1999)

Early English Books Online
(1999)

"Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe"
(1999)

NewspaperARCHIVE.com
(1999)

Bluetooth
(1999)

The Matrix
(1999)

The First Full Internet Service on Cell Phones
(1999)

Nigerian Letter Scams Move to the Internet
(1999)

Berners-Lee's Conception of the Semantic Web
(1999)

"The Internet of Things"
(1999)

Foundation of Designboom
(1999)

Napster is Founded
(June 1, 1999)

comScore is Founded
(August 1999)

Continuing to Print the British Parliamentary Papers on Vellum
(November 2, 1999)

Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
(November 29, 1999)

IBM's Blue Gene
(December 1999)