DO YOU KNOW?

Did you know the first ever website was created by internet pioneer Time Berners-Lee? If there was one site that would change the world for ever, this would be.The site went online on the 6th August 1991 with the introduction of brand new ‘World Wide Web’ (WWW) and being humbly described as a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval project intending to serve as an access point to a large sea of documents to the universe. It's now archived at www.tinyurl.com/3apuu.

Berners-Lee sure knows what was to come.

Below are some of the websites you just can’t live without.


1. GeoCities

The web wasn't a whole lot of fun back then and only after four years of pages created by scientists and academics, David Bohnett and John Rezner, who ran a web directory called Beverly Hills Internet, turned their company into GeoCities, giving anyone the ability to create their own site for free.
GeoCities made it possible for anyone to put something online for practically nothing. This was a huge deal. We owe them so much. This was when the revolutionary of the internet begins.


2. Blogger



GeoCities made it convenient for anyone to build their own personal site, however in August 1999, Blogger made it even easier. Now anyone could post a diary of what they had for dinner or why they hated their boyfriends.

Blogger continues to enable everyone to document their lives without needing to get their hands tied up with HTML. As does WordPress, TypePad, Tumblr and a million other services that have since appeared.


3. Wikipedia


Now just where do we always turn to when we are facing difficulties in our research for our college studies? Wikipedia! This site takes user-generated content to the next level, with an online encyclopedia anyone could edit. Sounds like a disaster where errors or downright lies might come into sight, however they're quick to be corrected by the site's users.

"Yes, the information is imperfect," says Jason Stockwood, "but the rigidly democratic nature of the site means that Wikipedia is a true embodiment of what the internet revolution originally promised."


4. YouTube




And where do you watch your music videos and all your TV? It is all started in a garage by three ex- PayPal employees; one site went on to shake up the whole TV industry. Later it was acquired by Google for $1.6 billion. All that for a company that's less than four years old? Think about it. You've probably heard of it: it's called YouTube.

We are used to find a text search result for every keyword we could think of, now we find a video for every keyword we think of! This is way awesome, and what made it better is the people themselves. They’ve been uploading 10 hours of videos every minute. That’s huge!