1995
Web 1.0
2000
/ phenomenon
The internet became accessible to the masses, bringing with it the first browsers, search engines, and online stores
The internet was no longer just a storefront — it was becoming a space for communication, creativity, and sharing
/ resources
10 services
Amazon
Amazon
Ebay
Ebay
ICQ
ICQ
Yahoo
Yahoo
Paypal
Paypal
Altavista
Altavista
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer
Google
Google
Hotmail
Hotmail
Napster
Napster
Altavista
Altavista
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer
Google
Google
Hotmail
Hotmail
Napster
Napster
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
LinkedIn
LinkedIn
Skype
Skype
MySpace
MySpace
Delicious
Delicious
BitTorrent
BitTorrent
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Important
events
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{ 1995 - 2000 }

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Yahoo
1995
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Launched in 1995, Yahoo! was known as "the homepage of the internet" — a directory of websites, news, and email
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Amazon, founded in 1995, started out as an online bookstore
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Ebay
1995
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Amazon
1995
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ICQ
1996
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Hotmail
1996
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Google
1998
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Google introduced an innovative website ranking system and quickly became the world’s most popular search engine
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Google was a revolution in search
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Internet Explorer
1995
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The emergence of the first search engines and mass-market browsers
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Altavista
1995
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Paypal
1999
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Napster
1999
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Services that
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45
countries — that's how many Amazon was selling books to in its first mont
17M
customers were using Amazon by the year 2000
$2.5B
was Amazon’s revenue in 2000
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4.5m
listings were posted daily on eBay by the end of 2000
12m
users were actively bidding and selling in 2000
$7.2B
was the total value of goods traded on eBay in 2000
Ebay
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$100 000
was the first investment received by Google in 1998 from the co-founder of Sun Microsystems
1B
pages had been indexed by Google by the year 2000
25M
search queries per day were handled by Google in 1999
ICQ
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500 000
new registrations per day happened at the peak of ICQ's popularity in 1999
100m
users had registered on ICQ by 2001
$287M
was the price AOL paid to acquire ICQ in 1998
Google
Google
2001
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