Major historical computer events for the decade of 1990

By GerryP96
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    Computer History

  • HTML Proposal

    HTML Proposal

    Tim Berners-Lee, working with Robert Cailliau at CERN, proposed a 'hypertext' system (HTML), which is the first start of the World Wide Web as we know it today.

  • First http server (CERN httpd)

    The first http server CERN HTTPD was written in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee for the NeXTSTEP platform.

  • First webpage launched

    The World Wide Web and the first web page was launched to the public on August 6, 1991. Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN European Partial Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.

  • First website comes online

    The first web server outside of Europe comes online and the first website was introduced. (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html)

  • Rasmus Lerdorf introduces PHP

    Originally used for tracking visits to his online resume, Rasmus named the suite of scripts "Personal Home Page Tools," more frequently referenced as "PHP Tools."

  • Håkon Wium Lie introduces CSS

    Håkon Wium Lie came up with a concept for CSS (cascading style sheets)

  • Javascript and Java announced

    Sun Microsystems announced JavaScript and released it in Netscape 2.0B3. In the same year, they also introduced Java.