Press Another to see something that happened on today's date in internet history, or a random milestone if today has none. The full calendar is below.
Every date here has been checked to the exact day. If your birthday or anniversary matches one, you have a piece of internet trivia to share.
The calendar
January
- Jan 3, 2009 — Bitcoin's genesis block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto.
- Jan 8, 2010 — The 'Double Rainbow' viral video was uploaded to YouTube.
- Jan 9, 2007 — Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone at Macworld.
- Jan 11, 2007 — The 'I Can Has Cheezburger?' LOLcat site launched.
- Jan 15, 2001 — Wikipedia launched.
- Jan 24, 1984 — Apple introduced the Macintosh.
- Jan 24, 2013 — Vine launched as an iOS app.
- Jan 27, 2010 — Apple announced the iPad.
February
- Feb 4, 2004 — Facebook launched (as "Thefacebook").
- Feb 8, 1996 — The Communications Decency Act was signed into law.
- Feb 8, 2005 — Google Maps launched.
- Feb 9, 2009 — Facebook's 'Like' button launched sitewide.
- Feb 10, 2011 — Rebecca Black's 'Friday' music video was uploaded to YouTube.
- Feb 14, 2005 — The YouTube domain was registered.
- Feb 24, 2009 — WhatsApp was incorporated.
- Feb 26, 2015 — The FCC adopted its Open Internet (net neutrality) order.
March
- Mar 1, 1995 — Craigslist was founded.
- Mar 2, 1995 — Yahoo! was incorporated as a company.
- Mar 14, 2023 — OpenAI released GPT-4.
- Mar 15, 1985 — Symbolics.com became the first registered .com domain.
- Mar 19, 2007 — Justin.tv launched as a 24/7 lifecast.
- Mar 21, 2006 — Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet.
- Mar 26, 1999 — The Melissa email virus began to spread.
April
- Apr 1, 2004 — Gmail launched.
- Apr 3, 2010 — The first iPad went on sale.
- Apr 5, 2011 — 'Nyan Cat' was uploaded to YouTube.
- Apr 14, 2003 — The 'Star Wars Kid' video began spreading online.
- Apr 22, 1993 — NCSA Mosaic 1.0, one of the first graphical web browsers, was released.
- Apr 23, 2005 — The first YouTube video, 'Me at the zoo,' was uploaded.
- Apr 23, 2007 — 'Chocolate Rain' was uploaded to YouTube.
- Apr 28, 2003 — Apple's iTunes Music Store launched.
- Apr 30, 1993 — CERN put World Wide Web software into the public domain.
May
- May 4, 2000 — The ILOVEYOU worm began spreading by email.
- May 5, 2003 — LinkedIn launched.
- May 11, 2005 — The 'Leeroy Jenkins' World of Warcraft video was posted.
- May 18, 2012 — Facebook went public in its Nasdaq IPO.
- May 23, 1995 — Sun Microsystems publicly announced Java.
June
- Jun 1, 1999 — Napster was released.
- Jun 6, 2011 — Twitch launched in public beta.
- Jun 6, 2012 — World IPv6 Launch Day switched major websites to the new address system.
- Jun 7, 2007 — 'Keyboard Cat' was uploaded to YouTube.
- Jun 20, 2003 — The Wikimedia Foundation was founded.
- Jun 23, 2005 — Reddit launched.
- Jun 28, 2005 — Google Earth launched.
- Jun 29, 2007 — The first iPhone went on sale.
July
- Jul 2, 2001 — Bram Cohen released the BitTorrent protocol.
- Jul 4, 1996 — Hotmail launched.
- Jul 10, 2008 — The Apple App Store opened.
- Jul 15, 2006 — Twitter launched to the public.
- Jul 15, 2012 — 'Gangnam Style' was uploaded to YouTube.
- Jul 16, 1995 — Amazon.com launched as an online bookstore.
August
- Aug 1, 2003 — MySpace launched.
- Aug 9, 1995 — Netscape went public in a landmark IPO.
- Aug 16, 1995 — Internet Explorer 1.0 was released.
- Aug 24, 1995 — Windows 95 was released.
- Aug 25, 1991 — Linus Torvalds announced the Linux project.
- Aug 29, 2003 — Skype launched.
September
- Sep 2, 2008 — Google Chrome was released in beta.
- Sep 3, 1995 — eBay was founded (as AuctionWeb).
- Sep 4, 1998 — Google Inc. was incorporated.
- Sep 15, 1997 — The Google.com domain name was registered.
October
- Oct 1, 2003 — 4chan launched.
- Oct 6, 2010 — Instagram launched on the App Store.
- Oct 9, 2006 — Google announced its acquisition of YouTube.
- Oct 23, 2001 — Apple unveiled the first iPod.
- Oct 25, 2001 — Windows XP was released.
- Oct 27, 1994 — The first web banner ad, for AT&T on HotWired, appeared.
- Oct 28, 1998 — The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was signed into law.
- Oct 28, 2021 — Facebook announced it was renaming itself Meta.
- Oct 29, 1969 — The first ARPANET message was sent, from UCLA to Stanford.
- Oct 31, 2008 — The Bitcoin white paper was published under the name Satoshi Nakamoto.
November
- Nov 7, 2013 — Twitter went public in its NYSE IPO.
- Nov 9, 2004 — Firefox 1.0 was released.
- Nov 15, 1996 — ICQ, one of the first mainstream instant messengers, was released.
- Nov 17, 1970 — Douglas Engelbart was granted a patent for the computer mouse.
- Nov 23, 2004 — World of Warcraft launched.
- Nov 30, 2022 — OpenAI launched ChatGPT.
December
- Dec 5, 2004 — Digg launched.
- Dec 6, 2004 — The 'Numa Numa' video was posted to Newgrounds.
- Dec 9, 1968 — Douglas Engelbart gave the 'Mother of All Demos'.
- Dec 15, 1994 — Netscape Navigator 1.0 was released.
- Dec 25, 1990 — Tim Berners-Lee made the first successful web communication between a client and a server.
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