Photos: Key events of the past 20 years of the web
Source: Mikko Stig/Rex Features
Microsoft pre-installs Internet Explorer on Windows
Microsoft wanted people to use Internet Explorer and pre-installed IE on Windows desktops, which made the company unpopular with the US Department of Justice anti-trust division. Microsoft lost, but by then it was too late, and everyone had switched to IE.
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- 13/03/2009
The world wide web celebrates its 20th birthday tomorrow and to wish the web a very happy birthday, we have compiled a picture gallery of some of the web's key events in that time.
