Photos: Key events of the past 20 years of the web
Source: OJO Images/Rex Features
In 1999 Napster launches first music sharing site
Shawn Fanning invented Napster in 1999. This was a peer-to-peer music sharing site that allowed subscribes to swap music files. The music industry was outraged and by 2001 the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) shut it down.
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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.
