History (Aug. 4) – In a world where there are more than 1 billion websites, it can be hard to believe there was a time with just one. In 1993, a team at Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications released Mosaic, the first web browser to become popular with the general public. The next few years saw the launch of such websites as Yahoo (1994), Amazon (1995), eBay (1995) and Google (1998).