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NeXTcube
The NeXTcube was used a the first web server created by Tim Berners-Lee. The idea behind the web sever was to provide an way for information to be shared among physicists around the world. The first web browser could be used only on the NeXTcube. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world_wide_web#1980.E2.80.931991:_Development_of_the_World_Wide_Web -
Mosaic Web Browser
The Mosaic Web Browser was created by a team at the University of Illinois. Mosaic was one of the first browsers that allowed images to be displayed along side text rather than in a new window. Mosaic was originally made for unix and later for windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world_wide_web#1980.E2.80.931991:_Development_of_the_World_Wide_Web -
Cello
Cello was the first web browser for the Windows platform. It was developed by Thomas R. Bruce. Bruce created Cello for laywers who had more access to Windows than Unix. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello_(web_browser) -
Webcrawler
Webcrawler was developed in 1994 by Brian Pinkerton, a CSE student at the University of Washington. It was one of the first web search engines that allowed for full text searching. Webcrawler is still online and combines the top results found by other popular search engines such as google. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebCrawler -
W3C
Tim Berners-Lee was the first director of the W3C. W3C was founded to provide a independent body to create stardards for the emerging World Wide Web. W3C gained support from MIT, CERN, and other organizations. http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_w3c.htm -
Netscape
Netscape the first commercial web browser is released as Mozilla 1.0. Netscaped was developed as a cross platform browser that could be used on Windows, Mac, and Unix. At first the web broswer had to be paid for, but was latter free. http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_netscape.htm -
Amazon
Amazon is comes online as an online book store. It was one of the first major online retailers. It was orginally founded under the name Cadabra.com in 1994 by Jeff Bezos. http://websearch.about.com/od/searchingtheweb/a/webhistory.htm -
Flash
Flash was produced by Macromedia and was introduced in 1996. Flash allows for webpages to be more interactive and provides more options for mutlimedia on websites. Flash is used for many games, animations, and advertising. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_flash#History -
Google
Google is founded in Menlo Park, California. Google is a search engine that shows search results based upon a website realtionship bewteen other web pages. This system was different than other seach engines that ranked results upon the amount of the times the keyword was found in the website. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google -
Myspace
Myspace is started as a online storage and file sharing website but was shutdown in 2001. It was in 2003 that is was developed into a social networking site. Myspace allowed users to create customized homepages and shared pic and other things. http://websearch.about.com/od/searchingtheweb/a/webhistory.htm -
Wikipedia
Wikipedia was a project that accompanied another encyclepedia project called Nupedia. Wikipedia is an online encyclepedia that allows for any of its members to edit and contribute articles. Wikipedia has over 17 million articles in 276 different languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia -
Youtube
Me at the zoo Youtube is founded as a website for video sharing. Registered users of the site are allowed to upload and unlimited number of videos. Google bought youtube in 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
