History of the web timeline

• The web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991.
• 20%- 25% of the world is using the web.
• 35 million people in britain log onto the web each day. 2 billion people in the world log onto the web each day.
• The original ideologies for the web were based in San Francisco. These ideologies were from the counter culture/ hippie values, which were, free ownership, access, voice and potential.
• The first 'web community' was called 'The well' it was created in 1985 also in San Francisco.
• Email was invented in 1965.
• The first website went online on 6th August 1991.
• The web was originally designed to link documents from one computer to another.
• According to the record industry 95% of music is downloaded illegally.
• £531 million is the estimated loss in revenue from the illegal sharing of film, TV and music.
• 20% of the webs content is created by amateurs.
• Youtube was created in February 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.
• 90% of blogs since 1992 are now dormant.