links for 2008-09-30
But even in 1995, the Internet — as opposed to the Web — had seen a couple of decades of development. And it’s now had over a decade more. It’s given us hundreds and hundreds of milestones; thousands of defining moments.
We decided to plough the history of the entire Internet, from the roots of its underlying technology, to the Web properties that helped it explode, the litigation it endured on the way and disasters companies have suffered as a result of the Net’s popularity. We’ve picked 50 of what we think are the most significant moments, in ten categories spanning almost 40 years of Internet history.
