Evolution of web design

By daalbermo

  • First Website

    Created by Tim Berners Lee and it was text-based, with minimal imiages and inline links

  • First Browser ViolaWWW

    Created by Pei-Yuan Wei and it was the first browser to support scripting, table rendering and forms.

  • First web browsers with a graphical interface

    Created by students of the University of Illinois, the name was MOSAIC 1.0 and was available for free.

  • Yahoo!

    Created byJerry Yang and David Filo, two Ph.D. students from Stanford University, created a list of websites entitled "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web."

  • Lycos

    Created by Michael Loren Mauldin from Carnegie Mellon University developed one of Lycos's oldest search engines.

  • Alexa

    Created by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat founded a company called Alexa Internet.

  • HTML 3.2

    Created by W3C issued a final recommendation specifying the HTML 3.2 markup language.

  • A List Apart

    Created byJeffrey Zeldman and Brian Platz began publishing the mailing list called A List Apart, which provided readers with regular news from the world of web design, web standards, and web development.

  • Web 2.0

    Created by Darcy DiNucci published an article entitled "Fragmented Future" in the Print magazine, in which the term Web 2.0 was first introduced.

  • DeviantArt

    Created by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens and Angelo Sotira founded an art community portal called DeviantArt.

  • Wikipedia

    Created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded Wikipedia, a multilingual internet encyclopedia.

  • Box Model Hack

    Created by The American-Turkish developer Tantek Çelik came up with a solution called Box Model Hack while working on Internet Explorer 5 for Mac.

  • CSS Zen Garden

    Created by The Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden.

  • Mozilla Firefox 1.0

    Created by Mozilla Corporation released a multiplatform web browser, Firefox 1.0.

  • Reddit

    Created by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian established the Reddit social network.

  • Smashing Magazine

    Created by Sven Lennartz and Vitaly Friedman created a portal for web designers and developers called Smashing Magazine.

  • CSS-Tricks

    Created by Chris Coyier, a web designer, established the CSS-Tricks portal.

  • Google Chrome

    Google released the beta version of Google Chrome's freeware browser for Windows.

  • Less 1.0

    Created by Alexis Sellier designed a CSS preprocessor called Less 1.0, a dynamic styling language for cascading styles.

  • Sketch 1.0

    Created byThe Dutch company Bohemian Coding released the vector graphics editor Sketch 1.0.

  • Bootstrap 1

    Created by Web developers Mark Otto and Jacob Thorton of Twitter began creating the CSS framework Bootstrap in mid-2011.

  • Media Queries

    W3C issued an official recommendation for Media Queries specification.

  • Bootstrap 3

    Created by A team of developers from GitHub published the CSS framework Boostrap 3.

  • HTML 5

    W3C adopted the final recommendation for the HTML5 markup language.

  • Microsoft Edge

    Microsoft released the first version of the Microsoft Edge web browser for Windows 10.

  • Adobe announced termination of Flash

    Adobe Systems announced that it would cease support for Flash in 2020 and would no longer issue additional security updates for Adobe Flash Player.