AKIPRESS.COM - Today the world marks the 25th anniversary of the world wide web, Sunday World reported.

The concept of the world wide web concept was first proposed in 1989 by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.

Now there are more than three trillion websites on the Internet including global giants such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, YouTube and Twitter.

Here is a brief history of the web.

1989

Tim Berners-Lee submits a proposal for a “distributed information system” to allow researchers to deal with huge amounts of information generated by physics experiments.

1990

The world’s first website goes live at Info.cern.ch.

1991

The world wide web is launched publicly as Berners-Lee publishes details of the project on the Internet.

1994

First International World-Wide Web conference. It is hailed as the “Woodstock of the web”.

1995

Jeff Bezos launches Amazon.com as an online bookshop from his garage in Seattle, Washington. The same year Microsoft launches first version of its Internet Explorer web browser.

1997

Google.com is registered as a web domain by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

2004

Harvard psychology student Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook with his college roommates.

2005

YouTube is launched.

2006

Twitter is created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass.

2010

Picture editing and sharing website Instagram is launched. In April 2012, it was sold to Facebook for $1 bln.

2014

Facebook pays $19 bln for mobile phone messaging system WhatsApp.