Tim Berners-Lee writes the first Web browser

Yahoo! founded

GeoCities founded and launched

Craigslist launches in San Francisco

Apple acquires NeXT (and reqcquires Steve Jobs)

Google is founded

Yahoo! acquires GeoCities

Craigslist expands to 70 cities across the United States

Digital signatures are given legal weight in Estonia

Wikipedia is launched

Meetup.com is founded

OpenPlans starts working on GeoServer

mySociety is founded

Craigslist has expanded to 32 cities

Facebook is founded

Howard Dean's presidential campaign

Google acquires Where2 (~Google Maps) and Keyhole (Google Earth)

YouTube is founded

Google and Portland TriMet begin work on GTFS

The Rise of Crowdsourcing
Jeff Howe, Wired Magazine

Twitter founded

Google acquires YouTube

Ushahidi launched for Kenyan general election

EveryBlock is founded

M-Pesa is launched

iPhone and iPhoneOS (later iOS) are launched

Sunlight and Participatory Politics Foundations launch OpenCongress.org

Android OS is unveiled

My mother joins Facebook

AirBnB founded

First Android-powered phone released

SeeClickFix is founded

Videos of Oscar Grant shooting at Fruitvale BART station circulate

"G" in GTFS changes to "general"

EveryBlock acquired by MSNBC

Open311 specification organizing begun

Uber founded

OpenStreetMap community responds to Haiti earthquake

Code for America Fellowship begins

UK Government Digital Service is formed

Code for America Brigade program launches

Edward Snowden leaks NSA files

#BlackLivesMatter is coined

First cross-US trip by an autonomous vehicle

FBI orders decryption of iPhone

WHO Advisory on Vicarious Trauma

US Conference of Mayors Tour of Duty program

Sharing Economy Non-Discrimination Act first introduced

First person to finally catch them all

OAuth4 (MyAuth) specification is released