The World Wide Web was conceived by Tim Berners-Lee in 1980 while working as an independent contractor at CERN in Switzerland. He proposed and built a prototype system called ENQUIRE to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. The first website was built at CERN in 1991 and was located at the address http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. It provided information about the WWW project including hypertext and how to create webpages and search the web. Broadband internet became widely available starting in the late 1990s and early 2000s, enabling much faster downloading and changing how people used the internet for activities like shopping, banking, social media, and streaming media.

1. When did the World Wide Web conceived by Tim Berners-Lee
Berners-Lee worked as an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980. While there,
he proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information
among researchers. To demonstrate, he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE. After leaving CERN in
late 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, England. He
ran the company's technical side for three years. The project he worked on was a "real-time remote
procedure call" which gave him experience in computer networking. In 1984, he returned to CERN as a
fellow. IN 1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe, and Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to
join hypertext with the Internet: "I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission
Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and the World Wide Web was created. Creating the
web was really an act of desperation, because the situation without it was very difficult when I was
working at CERN later. Most of the technology involved in the web, like the hypertext, like the Internet,
multi font text objects, had all been designed already. I just had to put them together. It was a step of
generalizing, going to a higher level of abstraction, thinking about all the documentation systems out
there as being possibly part of a larger imaginary documentation system.
When did the first website launched and what was it about?
The first website built was at CERN within the border of France, and was first put online on 6 August
1991:Info.cern.ch was the address of the world’s first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT
computer at CERN. The first web page address was
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which centered on information regarding the
WWW project. Visitors could learn more about hypertext, technical details for creating their own
webpage, and even an explanation on how to search the Web for information. There are no screenshots
of this original page and, in any case, changes were made daily to the information available on the page
as the WWW project developed. You may find a later copy (1992) on the World Wide Web Consortium
website
The world’s first banner ad
Wired.com, then known as HotWired, invented the first web banner ad.

2. Launch of YouTube
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of
PayPal. Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, while Chen and Karim studied
computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.YouTube began as a
venture-funded technology startup, primarily from a $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital
between November 2005 and April 2006. YouTube's early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria
and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www.youtube.com was activated
on February 14, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent months. The first YouTube
video was entitled Me at the zoo, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video
was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and can still be viewed on the site.
When the domain google.com was first registered?
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997.
When broadband internet became available and how it changed our habits online?
In 1997, the cable modem was introduced, although the common use of broadband didn't begin rising
until 2001. Having a broadband connection enabled one to download significantly faster than on dial-up.
As with many new technologies, most consumers were unable to afford the cost of faster Internet
service. However, high costs weren't a factor for long as by 2004, most average American households
considered home broadband service to be affordable. Since its inception, broadband has continually
strengthened and available connection speeds continue to rise. In 1993, it was impossible to imagine
that our communication world could be revolutionized so much that it would actually impact the way
everyone communicates, does business and socializes. Back then, no one could imagine that in 20 years
almost everybody on earth would have instant access to a sea of knowledge, including videos, audio and
text. And that the extent of that sea of knowledge would be more than any library could hold. In 1993,
no one could have comprehended the unbelievable nature of the broadband internet revolution. Today,
people do virtually everything online. We work, shop, socialize and plan details of our lives, all via the
internet. Through online banking, virtual offices and video conferencing, high speed internet has
revolutionized how we do business, while chat rooms, online gaming, social networking, VoIP, fast
movie downloads and video on demand are quickly phasing out telephones and TVs.
When amazon.com was first launched?
Amazon was incorporated in 1994, in the state of Washington. In October 1995, the company
announced itself to the public. In 1996, it was reincorporated in Delaware. Amazon issued its initial
public offering of stock on May 15, 1997.

3. When did the term web 2.0 become frequently used?
In 2004, the term began its rise in popularity when O'Reilly Media and Media Live hosted the first Web
2.0 conference. In their opening remarks, John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly outlined their definition of the
"Web as Platform", where software applications are built upon the Web as opposed to upon the
desktop. The unique aspect of this migration, they argued, is that "customers are building your business
for you.