Timeline
The aim of the timeline is not to clutter it with less important events, but rather to identify key moments in the history (and pre-history) of the Danish web. It is continuously expanded and detailed as the research project evolves (last edit 13 Jan 2026). A small 
icon indicates a link either to a short video about the topic on the project’s YouTube channel, or to another video source.
| Time | Denmark | International |
| 1997 | ||
| Feb | 15,164 registered .dk domain names (source). | |
| Jan | Registration of domain names is set free, private individuals can now register a domain name. | |
| Jan | 7,736 registered .dk domain names (source). | |
| 1996 | ||
| Oct | 4,684 registered .dk domain names (source). | |
| May | The Opasia CD-ROM is released by Tele Danmark, the national tele company. It is also sold as part of the Opasia box, including a Lasat modem. | Fifth International World Wide Web Conference, Paris, France (6-10 May). |
| Feb | Danish tele company TeleDanmark buys the Danish network company DKnet. | |
| 1995 | ||
| Dec | Fourth International World Wide Web Conference ‘The Web Revolution’, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (11-14 Dec). | |
| Sep | Internet Service Provider CyberCity is established. | |
| The website of the journal Jyllands-Posten that was launched in August has developed into a news media website, although it remains a dissemination platform for software from the journal’s computer club. | ||
| The small municipality of Ledøje-Smørum on eastern Zealand is the first Danish municipality online; the city is present on Diatel with facts about the municipality and multilingual tourist information. | ||
| The left-wing political party SF now has moved their online presence Hot-Lips to the web, www.sf.dk. | ||
| ‘Operation Cobra’ is the first Danish film to have a dedicated web page, with summary, photos and more. | ||
| The Social Democrat political party launches their online service DiAlog, not on WWW, but in FirstClass (2 Sep). | ||
| Aug | ‘Telepakken — porten til cyberspace’ is released by tele company TeleDanmark— it is a box with internet access software, a guide book to the internet, and a ‘telephone book’ with email addresses. In relation to ‘Telepakken’, TeleDanmark establish their first website called ‘Webclub’. | |
| As the first Danish mainstream medium Jyllands-Posten launches a website, jp.dk. The website is not a broad news media website, but is used as a dissemination platform for software from the journal’s computer club. | ||
| The company Mondo Media establishes Dansk Web Index, a directory of websites on the Danish web. | ||
| July | The search engine Jubii is established, maintained by Jafa Consult (by Jakob Faarvang), hosted by Cybernet (31 Jul). | |
| The local newspaper Folkebladet Glostrup is the first Danish non-specialist newspaper on the web. | ||
| Netland, first Danish online shop is established by the web company Dansk InterNet Selskab. Netland offers access to a host of already existing shops that are responsible of the contact to customers. | ||
| June | The film magazine Scope (scope.dk) is launched on the web by the ad agencies Mondo Media and PassWord; Scope is ad-funded. | |
| Social democrat Helle Degn first Danish member of Parliament with a personal web page. | ||
| Online debate on the BBS Politiken On Line, with the Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper Politiken. | ||
| May | An address book with email addresses is published by Tele Danmark, the Danish tele company. It was only published once. | |
| In the Spring the number of Danish websites starts to grow quickly, mainly websites for larger companies are established. | ||
| Cybernet, a new Internet Service Provider is established, they offer cheaper internet access than their competitors (1 May). | ||
| Apr | The international company Young & Rubicam establishes the Danish company ‘Y & R Interactive’, claimed to be the first web advertising company in Denmark. | The Apache Group Releases the Apache HTTP Server. |
| A Danish ‘Kulturnet’, ‘Culture on the net’, is established by Det Kongelige Bibliotek, the royal Danish library. ‘Kulturnet’ is a website that provides information about Danish cultural institutions, webpages are hosted on the library’s webserver. | ||
| ‘Internet in a box’ is advertised in Denmark. | The Third International World-Wide Web Conference Technology, Tools and Applications, Darmstadt, Germany (10-14 Apr). | |
| ‘Café Internet’, the first permanent internet café in Denmark opens in Copenhagen. | ||
| The first website of a public library is launched by Silkeborg Bibliotek, Silkeborg Library (3 Apr). | ||
| Mar | The rightwing political party Venstre has an online presence on Diatel. | |
| The network service Diatel is launched at an event at Hotel Scandinavia with the Minister of Research Frank Jensen, one and a half year later than planned; a turnover of 20 million, and 20-25.000 users are expected within the first year (30 Mar). | ||
| A plan of action Fra vision til handling: Info-samfundet år 2000 is published by the Ministry of Research as a follow-up to the report Info-samfundet år 2000 from Oct 1994. The plan of action spurs an intense public debate in the following months and becomes a point of reference for discussions about ‘the information society’. | ||
| The Internet Service Provider Uni-C launches a new product ‘Internet Service 2000’ — access to WWW is an integrated part of the service. | ||
| Mondo Media, and PinPoint, the first two web companies are established, they produce, host and market websites in Denmark. | ||
| Feb | First Danish political party online, the left-wing SF opens Hot-Lips, not established as a website, but in Gopher. Partly open for non-party members (1 Feb). | |
| 1994 | ||
| Dec | The specialist weekly tech journal Ingeniøren is the first Danish print media outlet to establish a website: ing.dk (12 Dec). | |
| Nov | Virtuel kultur, first purely online magazine in Denmark is published, called ‘et virtuelt kulturtidsskrift’, ‘a virtual culture magazine’. | |
| Oct | The Second International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference ’94: Mosaic and the Web, Chicago, Illinois, USA (17-20 Oct). | |
| ‘Internet in a box’ is released in the US — it includes diskettes with internet software, installation instructions, and the book The whole internet user’s guide. | ||
| The report Info-samfundet år 2000 (Dybkjær & Christensen) is published by the Ministry of Research, it outlines how public institutions, companies, and citizens can benefit from information technologies in the future (10 Oct). | ||
| 5% of Danish households have a modem (100,000 households). | ||
| Sep | Politiken On Line, a BBS community, is established by the national newspaper Politiken. | |
| May | First International Conference on the World-Wide Web, CERN, Geneva (25-27 May). At the Conference Dinner on the evening of 26 May a number of WWW’94 Awards were handed out, among others to Nicola Pioch for the website ‘Le Louvre’. | |
| 1993 | ||
| June | The third web server in Denmark is established, run by Uni-C, the national IT-center for research and education: denet.dk. | |
| Apr | CERN releases rights to use WWW software into public domain. | |
| 1992 | ||
| Nov | Tim Berners-Lee lists 24 web servers in the world, but more may exist. | |
| Oct | SF (Socialistisk Folkeparti) is the first Danish political party to establish an online presence (probably a BBS). | The Scientific and Advanced-Technology Act of 1992 signed into law by President George H.W. Bush. It permitted the National Science Foundation (NSF) to allow commercial traffic on the Internet backbone, which marked the official opening of the Internet for commercial use. |
| Sep | The first web server established in Denmark, at Danmarks Tekniske Bibliotek: dtb.dk. | |
| The relaunched Teledata is closed down. A new computer network, Diatel, is being prepared. | ||
| 1991 | ||
| Sep | First case of hacking in Denmark. Two Danish hackers ‘Jubjub Bird’ and ‘Sprocket’ are caught, brought to trial and sentenced, the first sentence for hacking in Denmark. | |
| Aug | Tim Berners-Lee makes a post the World Wide Web in the usenet group alt.hypertext, at the time spelled WorldWideWeb, without space between characters. The post includes a link to the first web server http://info.cern.ch. | |
| Apr | WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) was made publicly available. | |
| Mar | Gopher was released. | |
| 1990 | ||
| Sep | Archie was released. | |
| Jan | The computer network NetPlus is established as an experiment in a limited number of Danish cities. NetPlus is run by Kommunedata and various partners. It can be considered a competitor to Teledata. NetPlus is presented in a tv news program (TV Fyn, 22 Mar 1990, minute 4:45). | |
| 1989 | ||
| Mar | First mention of a Danish Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) in a Danish newspaper. The BBS ‘Rodnet’ is presented, it is located in Aarhus, and it is a BBS for grassroots organizations and NGOs. | Tim Berners-Lee’s first proposal for what later became the World Wide Web, entitled ‘Information Management: A Proposal’, sent to Mike Sendall who famously added the handwritten note on the top “Vague, but exciting…”. |
| 1988 | ||
| Apr | Teledata is relaunched in April 1988, now understood as a ‘switchboard’ to a large number of databases, primarily aimed at companies. Teledata is still run by the Danish tele companies. | |
| Uni-C, the national IT-center for research and education, provides access to the Internet for research and education institutions. The Internet service is called Denet. | ||
| 1984 | First Danish tv program about an existing computer network. The program ‘Data og datamater’ has a feature about Teledata (DR, 4 Sep 1984, minute 17:00). | |
| 1983 | DKUUG, the Danish Unix User Group, provides access to the Internet. The Internet service is called DKnet. | |
| 1982 | The four regional Danish tele companies establish Teledata as a two-year test project. Teledata is the first Danish computer network aimed at the wider public. The project mainly runs in two cities, Silkeborg and Lyngby. Teledata is modelled after the UK Prestel. | |
| 1981 | The report ‘Teletekstsystemer’ is published by Teletekstudvalget (June). It paves the way for the launch of Teledata the following year. | |
| 1978 | The Prime Minister’s office appoints the committee ‘Udvalget vedrørende eventuel indførelse af teletekstsystemer i Danmark (Teletekstudvalget)’ with the task to debate the potential launch of ‘teletext’ systems in Denmark (Sep). |
Last updated 13 Jan 2026
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