The Top 10 Internet Moments Revealed. What are yours?

The top 10 Internet moments revealed. What are yours?

“The Internet is the story of the decade because it was the catalyst for change in not just every aspect of our everyday lives, but in everything from commerce and communication to politics and pop culture,” said David-Michel Davies, the executive director of the Webby Awards.

According to the Webby Awards the top 10 most pivotal moments are:

- Craigslist online classified site expands outside San Francisco (2000)

- The launch of Google AdWords (2000)

- The launch of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia (2001)

- The shutdown of file-sharing site Napster (2001)

- Google’s initial public offering (2004)

- The online video revolution led by YouTube (2006)

- Facebook opens to non-college students and Twitter launches (2006)

- Apple’s iPhone debuts (2007)

- The use of the Internet in the US presidential campaign (2008)

- The use of Twitter during the Iranian election protests (2009)

I decided to ask the same question in-house here at FirstFound UK and realised that we started to come up with a completely different set of results. Most of these answers are due to the fact that we are based in the United Kingdom and have been influenced in different ways.

- The launch of h2g2.com (1999)

- Robert Tappan Morris first person convicted under a computer Fraud and Abuse Act (1989)

- Freeserve was one of the first of the UK’s ISPs to dispense with the usual monthly subscription fee for Internet access (1998)

- The ARPANET – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (1962)

- When the local high street and big commercial companies decided to go online (1981)

- The launch of Geocities (1994)

- The launch of EBay (1995)

- The launch of Social networking (1985)

- The launch of SKYPE (2003)

- The launch of Amazon – (1994)

I would love to know what you consider to be your most pivotal internet moments.

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