Who invented the World Wide Web?

• Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee, an Englishman, invented the World Wide Web in 1989.

The Internet

• This is not to be confused with the invention of the internet; the internet was invented in 1969 by the US Department of Defence as a means of communication if they were attacked by Russia, and first records of development date back to the 1950s

FlickR

• 3 Million pictures and videos are uploaded on Flickr everyday

Blog Usage

• Every month it an estimated 350 million people browse the world’s 10s of millions of blogs

Registered website growth

• Between 1995- 2000, 20 million .com sites were registered

Early Growth of the Internet

• In 1994 Web usage was growing at 2300% a year

The Very First E-commerce site

• In 1994 Pizza Hut became the first company to venture into e-commerce, with “Pizza Net”; a service that allowed customers in Santa Cruz, California to order pizzas online. This made the front page headlines of a major US Newspaper’s business section

Court order allowing web-commerce

• In 1994 the injunction previously outlawing web commerce was lifted, paving the way for the likes of Amazon, the world’s first major ecommerce site

Amazon Users

• Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and now has 124 million customers

Source = BBC’s very interesting programme on the internet “Virtual Revolution”