Art History, History of Web Development

Memex was created

Jan 15, 1945

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

Jan 1, 1961

Leonard Kleinrock published a paper about packet switching

ARPANET

Mar 16, 1965

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

026 Code Editor

Mar 3, 1967

The first text/code editor called 026 was created

Then connection was made

Sep 1, 1976

Engineers use radio waves to connect two computers together

TCP/IP

Jan 2, 1983

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

Pear Text editor was made

Dec 13, 1987

Larry Wall creates Pear, a programming language for Web sites

Welcome to the World Wide Web

Jul 6, 1990

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

First long distance connection

Mar 4, 1991

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

Netscape

Dec 18, 1994

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

Sun Microsystems

Apr 7, 1995

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

Feb 10, 1996

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

Jan 1, 1997

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

HTML 3.2

Dec 2, 1997

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

Terrorists use web to recruit

Sep 6, 2004

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

Twitter is born

Apr 9, 2006

Twitter was created

First mobile browser

Mar 8, 2007

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

Responsive Web Design

Jan 1, 2010

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

The Internet is 25 years old

Jan 1, 2014

The internet’s 25th Birthday

RESOURCES

Sep 12, 2015

• Coll, S. (2005, August 7). Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations. Retrieved July 18, 2015, from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501138.html
• http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/web-design-history-tour/
• Kolowich, L. (2015, March 9). The History of Web Design [Infographic]. Retrieved July 18, 2015, from http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/web-design-history
• http://www.zeldman.com/

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

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