History of Web Design

Creation of ARPANET

Dec 1, 1969

(Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)
this linked U.S. scientific and academic researchers.
ARPAnet was the forerunner of today's Internet.

Creation of GML

Dec 31, 1969

GML (Generalized Markup Language) is the predecessor to SGML. GML was developed by IBM in efforts led by Charles Goldfarb. GML originated the use of <, >, and / for markup and is still in use for document applications.

E-mail is invented

Oct 28, 1971

by: Ray Tomlinson

SGML is announced

Oct 28, 1980

(Standard Generalized Markup Language)
by American National Standards Institute Comittee.
SGML is the parent language of HTML.

HTML is invented

Oct 28, 1984

HTML is the most popular markup language in use today,
it is an application of SGML. HTML is one of the foundations of web development.

World Wide Web is introduced

Oct 28, 1989

Tim Berners-Lee proposed a set of protocols and software that allowed computers to browse the information in the Internet (World Wide Web). He also developed the first web server called Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon (HTTP).

First website is launched

Aug 1, 1991

Tim Berners-Lee was responisble for the first website, info.cern.ch

Mosaic is released

Oct 28, 1993

Mosaic, the first internet browser, was released by NCSA. Mosaic allowed users to surf the Internet in a graphical way and also opened the web up to the general public.

W3C Consortium is founded

Oct 28, 1994

W3C Consortium is founded in order to set standrards and direction of future development of HTML.

Windows 95 is released

Oct 28, 1995

Microsoft released Windows 95, the newest revision of the company's operating system. This featured a completely new user interface & a browser on the Windows platform, Microsoft Internet Explorer, which became popular worldwide.