The brief history of the internet is dotted with thousands of interesting moments – some of which shaped and moulded our lives like never before.


May 1978: First spam message goes into an email
Jun 1987: GIF image format is created
Apr 1989: MP3 file format patented
Nov 1990: WWW proposed for surfing
Oct 1994: Dot Com is introduced
May 1994: sex.com is registered
Feb 1995: First internet phone launched
Jul 1996: Hotmail launched
Dec 1997: The word BLOG used for the first time
Aug 1998: Google gets funding
Feb 2005: YouTube launched
Aug 2006: AOL accidentally released data about its users and what they searched for!

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