1- Q-link (Quantum Link) was the first online service to combine electronic mail, games and public file sharing. It was early during the 1985.
2- First 3 major online businesses were- Prodigy, Compuserve and America Online (AOL). It was during the 1990’s.
3- Internet advertising was $55 million industry in 1995 but it grew upto $25.7 billion industry in 2009.
4- Mosaic was the first widely available browser. Consumers used Mosaic with ISP to send emails.
5- The first banner ad was of AT&T and said “Have you ever clicked your mouse right here? You will”
6- Hot Wired, an online web magazine was the first company to sell banner advertisements.
7- Portals help users get a wide range of information and services.
8- Early search engines were Magellan, Hot Bot, Excite, Inktomi, Lycos, Yahoo etc.
9- Some useful search engines of search engines are Meta Crawler and Dogpile.
10- Earlier web portals were Go.com (later named Overture) and MSN.com .
11- Google was the first search engine that quickly provided the exact information to the searchers.
12- First notable social networking sites were classmates.com and friendster.com .
