This week marks the ten year anniversary of the rise of Netscape and the World Wide Web. The Belfast Telegraph's Danny Bradbury has written an
Internet timeline showing how the Web changed our lives.
I've briefly listed some of the highlights below, but check out
Danny's article for the complete story. I've also used information from a few other published timelines. A list of them along with links are included at the end of this post.
1995:
Netscape raises almost 3 billion in capital and makes their user-friendly browser available to ordinary people and Amazon.com begins selling books online. Copuserve and AOL allow users to exchange e-mail. The Altavista search engin
Covet Thy Neighbor's Broadband at 2005-08-19 04:16:43
Yahoo Beats Google In Size Of Search Index at 2005-08-19 04:16:43According to Yahoo®, their search engine index is more than
double the size of search giant Google™... No matter, I still use Google™ for just about every search.
UPDATE: The New York Times is reporting that Google™ and Yahoo® are at it again. This time
debating the overall size of the Web.
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How to get your RSS feeds listed in Yahoo. at 2005-08-19 04:16:42I know what you are saying... Is this going to be as complicated as the old way of listing your site in Yahoo? Follow these four easy steps to get your feeds listed.