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Sept 23rd, 1997



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In December 1993, John Markov writes a page and a half on WWW and Mosaic in "The New York Times" business section. "The Guardian"(UK) publishes a page on WWW, and "The Economist" (UK) analyses the Internet and WWW.

The web had attracted the attention of the general public and was ready erupt into the system we know today. There were plenty of people there to help it along also.

In January 1994, O'Reilly, Spry, and others announce "Internet in a box" product to bring the Web into homes. AOL, which was established in 1985 by Steve Case, did not begin offering Web services until 1995.

In March of 1994, Marc Andreessen, creator of the Mosaic browser and James H. Clark, who also founded Silicon Graphics, founded Netscape Communications.

In early 1994 at the University of Washington, students and faculty in the Department of Computer Science gathered to discuss the new popularity of the Internet and WWW. At this seminar students introduce small projects, it was here that Brian Pinkerton introduced a small single-user application to find information on the Web, called The WebCrawler.

A web interface was implemented for the WebCrawler and the first release on April 20, 1994, had a database containing documents from over 6000 different servers on the Web. With added funding WebCrawler became Pinkerton's thesis and it quickly became one of the web's more popular search engines, as well as its first. WebCrawler was sold to American Online in March 1995, to become a commercially operated and supported engine. In November of 1996, WebCrawler was acquired from America Online by Excite, Inc.

Also in April 1994, two students at Stanford University, David Filo and Jerry Yang started a guide to keep track of their personal interests on the web. They named this guide "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" (Yahoo!) which may have been named just for that acronym. Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos. As their lists of links grew to unmanageable sizes, they converted their pages and links to databases, with some customized software they wrote. This software allowed users to add and update links also.

In early 1995, Marc Andreessen offered to host their site on Netscape's larger computers, which allowed Yahoo! to grow into the most popular site visited on the web, that is not a default bookmark. April 11th, 96, Yahoo! went public with an initial public offering of 2,600,000 shares at $13.00 a share. August 11th, 1997, Yahoo stock splits in a 3 for 2 split. Today, Sept 22nd, 1997, Yahoo closed at 53.65. Yahoo has become the most profitable and popular on-line web service.

March 6th, 1995, Netscape Unveils Netscape Navigator 1.1 a new version of Internet's most popular navigator now available on Net

April 1995, Sun releases Java Development kit, a programming language tailored for the web, with its write once run everywhere architecture.

September 1995, Netscape announces Navigator 2.0, and Navigator 2.0 GOLD, both supporting embedding Java programs, integrated e-mail and news programs, in-line plug-ins, frames, and a new user interface.

It wasn't until late 1995, after their release of Windows 95 in August, did Microsoft enter the browser market with their Internet Explorer 1.0.

December 4, 1995, Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript, with 28 Industry-leading companies to endorse JavaScript as a complement to Java for easy online application development.

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