In tune with our 20 year anniversary theme, 1995 is a key year in the fledgling dot.com era. Which of the following happened in 1995?

• Netscape introduces SSL
• Sun Microsystems announces JavaScript
• Amazon.com is officially opened
• EBay is founded
• PHP is publicly released
• The USB standard is established
• VoIP software is introduced
• The first Wiki is created

 

THE ANSWER:

All of the events shown above happened in 1995.  In addition, unknown students Larry Page and Sergey Brin began their early work in developing the BackRub algorithm (later known as PageRank USP 6,285,999), a research project out of Stanford University that, who knew, just might be a useful tool for finding information on the world wide web one day.