In 1996 Yahoo launched Yahooligans, a kid-friendly web directory.
Netscape made the browser used by 90% of web surfers until the release of Internet Explorer 4.
Archie is considered the internet's first search engine, created in 1990.
Television took 13 years to reach 50 million users. The Internet took less than four years to reach that many users.
'Carnivore' was developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as in internet survellience system designed to monitor e-mail and electronic communication.
The internet is quickly closing the gap between local newspapers and the Yellow Pages as the second-most used advertising medium.
Hotwired.com created the web's first banner ads.
Ray Tomlinson sent the world's first e-mail message.
eCompanies bought 'business.com' in 1999 for $7.5 million.
A person receives an average of 26 e-mails per day.
In 1989 the World Wide Web was born at CERN in Switzerland.
AOL acquired CompuServe in 1997. CompuServe was the first Internet Service Provider.
The internet was advertising-free up until 1992, when the U.S. Congress amended the National Science Foundation Act.
Excite.com was started by six Stanford students looking for an exciting way to stay together after graduation.
In 2001, John Paul II became the first Pope to send e-mail.
According to the the Merriam Webster Dictionary in 1946, a computer was defined as 'a person who tabulates numbers; accountant; actuary; bookkeeper.'
Digital Equipment Corporation was the first computer company to register a domain name.
In 1993, Boeing was the first airline to discover the Y2K problem.
In 1994 Lee Stein opened First Virtual Holdings, considered the interet's first truly electronic bank.
Amazon.com was originally known as Cadabra.com.
Echobay Technology Group was forced to register ebay.com after discovering echobay.com was already taken.
On March 26, 1976, Queen Elizabeth II sent the first royal e-mail.
Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web.
The "@" symbol was once considered a letter in the English language. Other cultures refer to it in many different ways. Chinese:little mouse, Danes and Swedes:elephant's trunk, Germans:spider monkey, Italians:snail, Israelis:strudels, Czechs:rollmops
Yahoo's original URL was akebono.stanford.edu.
