Shafin yanar gizo kamar yadda muka sani ya samo asali ne a tsakiyar shekarun 1990, lokacin da zane-zane da ayyuka kamar imel ya zama sananne kuma ya kai ga masu sauraro da kuma kasuwanci. An saki Internet Explorer a shekarar 1995; Netscape a shekarar da ta gabata. An kafa Google a shekarar 1998. An kafa Wikipedia a shekara ta 2001. Facebook, MySpace, da YouTube a tsakiyar shekarun 2000. Gidan yanar gizo na 2.0 har yanzu yana fitowa. Adadin bayanan da ke kan yanar gizo da kuma yawan masu amfani da Intanet a duniya sun ci gaba da girma cikin sauri.
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