AOL TRIAL CDS: The Most Successful Junk Mail in History (1993–2006)

BITTORRENT: The Protocol With No Off Switch (2001–2012)

WAYBACK MACHINE: How the Web Learned to Remember Itself (1996–2001)

USENET: The Internet Before the Web — and the September That Never Ended (1980–1993)

IRC: The Chat Room That Taught the Internet to Talk (1988)

RSS: The Feed That Let Readers Control the Internet (1999–2013)

The Million Dollar Homepage: How One Student Sold a Million Pixels

SETI@home: The Screensaver That Built the World's Biggest Supercomputer

Slashdot: The Front Page That Could Crash the Internet (1997)

ICQ: The "Uh-Oh!" That Invented Instant Messaging (1996–2024)

Numa Numa: The Bedroom Dance That Broke the Internet Before YouTube (2004)

eBay's First Auction Was a Broken Laser Pointer — 1995

The First Banner Ad: "You Will" Click This — 1994

Friendster: The Social Network That Said No to Google | 2003

Blogger: The Tiny Startup That Gave Everyone a Printing Press (1999–2005)

Dot-Com Crash: When the Internet Bubble Burst (2000)

Hotmail: The $400M Email Startup That Started With "P.S. I Love You" (1996)

Yahoo! — The Web's First Directory (and the Biggest Fumble in Internet History)

Wikipedia: The Encyclopedia Anyone Could Edit (2001)

Digg: The Front Page That Buried Itself (2004–2010)

AIM: The Door Creak That Ran the Internet (1997–2017)

The Morris Worm: When a 23-Year-Old Accidentally Broke the Internet (1988)

The First Browser War: Netscape vs Microsoft

Napster: The Summer Music Went Free (1999–2001)

Winamp: The MP3 Player That Really Whipped the Llama's Ass (1997–2013)

Everyone's First Friend: The Rise and Fall of MySpace (2003–2008)

Y2K: The Night the World Held Its Breath (1999)

The iPhone: How One Phone Killed Every Keyboard (2007)

GeoCities: The Town Where the Internet Grew Up (1994–2009)

Goodbye, Flash: The Plugin That Built the Internet

2007: The Year YouTube Took Over the Internet