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 Brief history of the Internet 1989 - 2001 

This page details milestones in the development of the Internet. In 1989, the World Wide Web was created by Sir Tim Berners Lee at CERN. CERN is the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. On the 6th August 1991 Berners Lee put the first website online. 30th of April 1993, CERN released a statement announcing the fact the Internet was available to the public for free, allowing the internet to thrive. Later on in that year, 2nd September the first ever search engine was launched. It was called W3Catalog. W3C was followed by Aliweb in November. January 1994, Sunnyvale, California, the search engine Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo. September 3, 1995, San Jose, California Ebay an online market place is founded by Pierre Omidyar. The first ever item sold on Ebay was a laser pointer that didn't even work! September 4, 1998,Menlo Park, California Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In 2001, multi award winning, popular, free online encyclopedia Wikipedia was founded. There are over 50 million Wikipedia pages.