10 Years on the web – 1995

March 1995 – Jerry Yang and David Filo incorporate Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle – YAHOO! and raise $32 million in funding from Sequoia Capital. In the same month, WWW surpases ftp-data as the service with the greatest traffic on NSFNet based on packet count, and in April based on byte count.

July 1995 – Amazon starts selling books online. Founder Jeff Bezos drives Amazon orders to the post office in his ’87 Chevy Blazer

August 1995 – More than any other stock, Netscape Communication’s IPO defined the arrival of the Internet as an economic force. With just $16 million in revenues at the time it went public, the seminal Web browser company was valued at more than $2 billion. More important than any specific numbers, Netscape’s IPO created the frenzy of day trading and venture capitalist investments that would become a hallmark of the dot-com era.

August 1995 – Microsoft introduces Windows 95 and gives away crappy new browser Internet Explorer 1.0

September 1995 -  The first version of what would become eBay went online. It became a legend that eBay Chairman, Omidyar, while working at General Magic, wrote a software for a Web site that would help his girlfirend trade with other Pez collectors.

December 1995- AltaVista gets off the ground with 16 million indexed pages, making it the Web’s largest search engine (Today Google indexes mode than 8 billion).

1995 in other news:

• The Apache web server project is started
• The java programming site for websites
• The registration of domain names is no longer free. Beggining 14 September, a $50 annual fee has been imposed
• Experimental CD-ROM disk can carry full-length film
• “Internet addiction” is identified
• Denmark announces plan to put much of the nation online within 5 years
• Major US dailies create national online newspaper network
• Lamar Alexander chooses internet to announce its presidential candidacy
• Audio of live events can be heard on the Internet
• Vatican develops a website