Art History, History of Web Development

By buterzworth

  • Memex was created

    Memex was created
    1945 Vannevar Bush wrote an article about a photo-electrical-mechanical device called Memex, for memory extension. It could make and follow links between documents on microfiche

  • Packet Switching

    Packet Switching
    Leonard Kleinrock published a paper about packet switching

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    Larry G. Roberts designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) and created the first functioning long-distance computer network.

  • 026 Code Editor

    026 Code Editor
    The first text/code editor called 026 was created

  • Then connection was made

    Then connection was made
    Engineers use radio waves to connect two computers together

  • TCP/IP

    TCP/IP
    ARPANET Created the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

  • Pear Text editor was made

    Larry Wall creates Pear, a programming language for Web sites

  • Welcome to the World Wide Web

    Tim Berners-Lee develops a system called the World Wide Web

  • First long distance connection

    From Stanford University, Paul Kunz retrieves data from Tim Berners-Lee’s computer in Switzerland

  • Netscape

    Marc Andreessen creates Netscape. W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Forms. Hakon Wium Lie Proposes CSS to Tim Berners-Lee. Yahoo was founded

  • Sun Microsystems

    Sun Microsystems
    Sun Microsystems Inc. releases Java 1.0. Domain Registration is no longer free. HTML 2.0 Published. Jeffery Zeldman becomes an innovator of Web Design

  • The New Era of Web Design

    The New Era of Web Design
    Considered the “Beginning of a new era” for Web Design. Browser wars erupt between Internet Explorer and Netscape ……… (Explorer wins). Dave Raggett and Charlie Kindel create Scripting. CSS is released Web safe colors grows to 256

  • CSS 3 Is released

    CSS 3 is released. Backgrounds and Gradients become popular. First large scale cyberwar between Serbia and Kosovo

  • HTML 3.2

    HTML 3.2
    HTML 3.2 was published followed by 4.0, by the W3C which would support CSS and Scripting

  • Terrorists use web to recruit

    Al Qaeda employs young code writers to design Web sites to use for recruitment and training

  • Twitter is born

    Twitter is born
    Twitter was created

  • First mobile browser

    First mobile browser
    First iPhone released and Mobile Safari launches (first mobile browser)

  • Responsive Web Design

    Responsive Web Design
    Responsive Web Sites become ever more popular to keep up with the major screen size differences

  • The Internet is 25 years old

    The Internet is 25 years old
    The internet’s 25th Birthday

  • RESOURCES

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    • Meyer, E. (2015). Meyerweb.com. Retrieved July 18
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