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Ada Lovelace's notes descovered
While Ada Lovelace's work didn't grand her much recognition during her lifetime, her work brought her to light with the discovery of her notes. They were published and she recieved many honors for her contributions to the field of computer programming. -
CERN launches the first website
The very first website was launched in 1991 by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The website showcased the project it's self and had information on the World Wide Web. The original web server is still being housed at CERN and was called the NeXT. -
Eric Bina
Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina are both credited with the creation of the Mosaic browser. However Marc Andreessen insists, much to Bina's dismay, that he was instramental to the creation of the browser and did most of the programming. -
Mosaic browser is created
It took less than eighteen months for mosaic to become the most popular browser among over a million users. Mosaic was created by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The project was headed by Marc Andreessen, who founded Netscape. -
Initial release of HTML
HTML's concept started in early 1990 and the first initial release was in 1993. It allowed users to create websites with images, music, and and animations. It's grown through the years and is now at it's current state, HTML5. -
Brendan Eich And JavaScript
Brendan Eich is credited with the creation of JavaScript. He created it within just 10 days for an initial release and it was at that time known as 'Mocha'. JavaScript adds another layer of website customization interactivity. -
Cascading Style Sheets
With the release of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) came more powerful options to manage the look and feel of a website. -
Jeffrey Zeldman
Zeldman's contributions to the field of Web Design and Development are numerous. He pushed for a standard in web and released a book on it in 1998. He is the creater of website 'A List Apart' and and helped CSS and responsive design gain mainstream popularity. -
Pinterest
Pinterest is a website that has a user create 'boards' to which they pin things they wish to catagorize together in one place. The grid like pins and boards have given rise to a more grid like layout seen more frequently now with the influence of Pinterest's website layout. -
Ethan Marcotte and Responsive Web Design
Ethan Marcotte is the one who helped Responsive Web Design into the mainstream. With the release of his book in 2011, Responsive Web Design, is a must read for any designer of today. -
Hurricane Sandy
With the advanced nature of social media in 2012 as compaired to earlier storms, Hurricane Sandy became the most documented Hurricane to date. Thousands of photos, both real and faked, flooded the internet and the aftermath of the storm reached millions upon millions of people in a depth never before seen. -
2016 American Presidential Elections
While it is still 2015, the 2016 Presidental elections will be on the fore front of every social media outlet. Canidates are taking to social media right now to get themselves out there to draw support for their run for presidency.
