Flashback starts a forum and becomes one of Sweden's largest web sites

Flashback is Sweden's largest online forum with about one million users writing over 15.000 posts every day. It has over two million visitors each week.

Boo.com's spectactular bankruptcy

They want to create the world's largest e-commerce site for fashion and sportswear. But with no profit made Boo.com quickly goes bankrupt and turns into a symbolic name for the IT bubble bursting.

The new economy turns out to be like the old economy: The stock market crashes

This is a new economy, with new rules. This promise makes tech companies rush upwards on stock markets all over the world. But when the end comes, it's brutal. The Stockholm stock market falls for 900 days.

Kazaa and Napster: File sharing strikes fear within the music industry

MP3 files are scaring the music industry during the early 2000s. And with a Swedish piece of software people all over the world can start sharing them.

Faster internet with broadband

1999 is a landmark year for broadband in Sweden, much thanks to Jonas Birgersson's Bredbandsbolaget. Their deal with housing giant HSB gives 350.000 apartments broadband connections

Home PC reform gives one million Swedes their first computer

Everybody should be able to take part in the new technology. Because of the "Home PC" reform, one million Swedes get their first computer.

The Swedish Internet Foundation is formed

Until 1997 the administration of .se domain names is handled by a single person: Björn Eriksen at KTH (The Royal Academy of Science). But when the internet gets more and more popular, this is quickly becoming unteneble as Björn has to work around the clock to keep up. KTH decide that domain names are not within their area of responsibility. Therefore the Swedish Internet Foundation is formed.

Lunarstorm (Stajl Plejs) is one of the first web communities in the world

In 1996 the web community StajlPlejs is founded, and a few years later changes its name to Lunarstorm. This is Sweden's first and largest online meetingplace - a colorful site where almost all of Sweden's youth hang out online for a few years.

Curl founder Daniel Stenberg creates the internet's messenger

Do you use the internet? In that case, you are helped by Daniel Stenberg's tool cURL many times every day. Ten billion installations is what he has counted so far.

Annica Tiger's HTML guide teach the Swedes to make their own web pages

In August 1996 Annica Tiger launches her HTML guide. It quickly becomes a hub for the growing Swedish internet world, and is the first place many budding web developers turn to learn coding HTML.

Spray pioneers a new type of corporate culture

Among the first to jump on the new internet hype in Sweden are Spray. The company starts as internet consultants in 1995 and build many of the first web pages for Swedish large corporations.

Aftonbladet.se is the first Swedish newspaper on the internet

It's the 25th of August, 1994, and Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet takes a big step when they add their culture section to the world wide web. This is the first newspaper in Sweden to publish online.

Swedish government forms the IT Commission and puts one billion SEK towards schools

In March 1994 the first IT Commission is formed. It's meant to act as an advisory committee to the government, but also to spread knowledge and information about IT, and promote development and strategy.

Dreamhack starts in a basement in Malung

Dreamhack is the world's largest LAN party, which is a meetup where people bring their computers to connect into networks, mainly to play video games.

Carl Bildt and Bill Clinton make history with their e-mails

On February 5th in 1994, the Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt writes an e-mail to the President of the United States Bill Clinton (and receives a response). This is the first time that two heads of governments are writing over the internet.