An interactive archive of

The WebWas Here

37 years of Internet history.
Curated stories, real hardware, and digital nostalgia.

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442 curated events·9 eras·1990—2026
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AltaVista found 37 document(s) in 0.38 seconds. Displaying internet milestones:

1998: Google Born in a Menlo Park Garage

Larry Page and Sergey Brin unleash PageRank on Stanford servers. Netscape goes open-source to spawn Mozilla while Microsoft IE 4 bundles into Windows 98...

http://thewebwashere.com/the-web/1998• Year 1998 • 18.2KB

2007: Steve Jobs & The Mobile Web Revolution

"An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator." Apple unveils the iPhone, Twitter blows up at SXSW, and modern web browsing moves right into our pockets...

http://thewebwashere.com/the-web/2007• Year 2007 • 21.0KB

2005: "Me at the zoo" — Dawn of Web 2.0 & YouTube

Jawed Karim uploads the very first 19-second video to YouTube. Reddit, MySpace, and AJAX dynamic interfaces redefine cyberspace into user-generated content...

http://thewebwashere.com/the-web/2005• Year 2005 • 16.4KB
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Featured Years

iPhone. Facebook. Twitter. YouTube.2007

The Year Everything Changed

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A garage. Two browsers. One monopoly.1998

Google & The Browser Wars

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Instagram. iPad. Responsive Design.2010

Mobile Ate the World

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Zoom. TikTok. COVID. The great experiment.2020

Everything Went Remote

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1990 — 2026

37 years. Every year tells a story.

THE DAWN1990—1994

Foundation

BROWSER WARS1995—1999

Early Web

BUST & REBUILD2000—2004

Bust & Rebuild

USER-GENERATED2005—2009

Web 2.0

POCKET REVOLUTION2010—2014

Mobile + Social

ALGORITHMS2015—2019

Platform Era

EVERYTHING REMOTE2020—2022

Pandemic Web

MACHINE LEARNING2023—2025

AI Era

AGENTIC WEB2026—2026

The Present

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Why this exists

Walk through the history of the Internet rather than reading about it.

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Preserve

Important moments in digital history before they're forgotten.

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Remember

Older users recognize what they lived through. Younger users discover what they missed.

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Understand

What influenced what. The connections between products, technologies, and culture.

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