On January 18, 1995, Jerry Yang and David Filo registered yahoo.com — what began as a hand-curated web directory grew into a global internet giant that shaped mass adoption of web-based email and online services, and for years was the most visited site on the internet.
On January 28, 1995, the Racket programming language (then PLT Scheme) was introduced — a Lisp-family platform designed not just as a language but as a tool for building new languages, letting developers reshape syntax and semantics for any domain through its powerful macro system.
On February 16, 1995, the .ai country code domain was delegated to Anguilla — a small Caribbean island no one expected to profit from a tech revolution, yet decades later the extension became the hottest domain in the industry as every AI startup rushed to claim it.
On March 25, 1995, Ward Cunningham launched WikiWikiWeb — the first website that let anyone edit any page directly in a browser. The web had been mostly static until that moment. This simple idea later became the foundation for Wikipedia, Confluence, Notion, and most modern collaborative documentation tools.
