Well, my new copy of Wired showed up today, and it contained a “tech timeline” showing the developments that have taken place over the last 10 years. That turned out to be an ad, so I went ahead and modified it slightly to post here.
I was surprised by how blazingly fast the internet has risen to its currently prominent position in just 10 years. Not only that, but by how long Steve and I have been participating in it. He and I both had websites in 1995, and we started devoting serious energy to it by the time we graduated from high school.
I mean, doesn’t that seem weird? Within two years of this technology really coming to power, Steve and I were already actively involved in it. That seems really odd to me. Anyways, enough babbling from me. Here’s the timeline.
1993
Wired magazine is launched.
NCSA Mosaic 1.0 is released.
Doom is released.
1994
The database that will become Yahoo! is created.
The first internet banner ads appear.
Linux is released.
Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released
Steve shows Scott Joe the Circle on the science teacher’s computer.
1995
Netscape’s IPO.
Amazon.com is launched.
The MP3 file format is developed.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.0 is released.
Scott’s first website(?), hosted on GeoCities.
1996
Yahoo!’s IPO
eBay is lauched.
Quake is released.
Scott and Steve graduate from Grant High School.
1997
The Justice Department sues Microsoft.
SlashDot is launched.
Scott and Steve purchases yellow5.com to host a fake band site.
Steve later buys Scott’s share of the domain.
1998
The iMac is released.
Google is launched.
Steve purchases Fojar
Steve starts drawing Pokey the Penguin
1999
Napster is created.
Scott and Miles purchase SpaceNinja.com
Steve purchases hatelife.org
2000
Y2K fizzles.
The human genome is mapped.
Scott purchases KillingMachines.org
Scott starts drawing propaganda art for Obey Fojar.
2001
Napster is closed by courts.
The iPod is released.
The Xbox is released.
Mutton Kombat is released.
2002
Amazon.com’s first profit.
Pretty much everyone else struggles to stay afloat.
I'm a 30-year-old 
Amazing …
… how much Wired Magazine knows about you two … (vbg)
March 26th, 2003 at 6:37 pm
Not Really
I didn’t know that Ebay lauched in 1996.
But, Scott: you forgot to put the (sic) next to that that shows you didn’t misspell launch . . .
. . . oh, wait.
March 26th, 2003 at 11:47 pm
smartass
*sigh* here I was, all excited that maybe someone had some actual feedback on my post, and instead I get criticism about a spelling error.
For someone who never has any time to post baby photos, you sure manage to find a lot of time to point out the shortcomings of anything I attempt.
March 27th, 2003 at 12:36 am
viva us!
this timeline really made me stop and consider how long things have been around. we’ve been involved in this stuff for almost 10 years!! i remember getting my first internet email address some time in high school.. and not really having anyone to email.
i guess being in the thick of it, you don’t notice how time passes. can you imagine how rich we’d be if we’d written forum5000 back in 1995?
March 27th, 2003 at 9:28 am
prehistory
And before the interweb, there were other “wired” services like Prodigy, Compuserve, and countless indie boards which I was accessing on a 1200 baud modem since I was in junior high… I had my first email address in 1988!
March 27th, 2003 at 9:32 am
more dates
1991
Miles gets account on WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link), early USENET-like community BBS.
1999
Miles uploads first Isometric strip.
Four years. Jesus. HULK SMASH
March 27th, 2003 at 9:43 am