Photos: Key events of the past 20 years of the web
Source: Jonathon Hordle/Rex Features
Google revolutionises search in 1998
With everyone and their dog, publishing websites, the www soon became unusable. Luckily, search engines like Altavista and Yahoo, helped. But one stood above the rest, namely Google, which has become the de facto standard for internet search.
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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.
