History of the WWW

Mar 1989 - Project Proposal Dec 1990 - 1st Website (TBL CERN WWW) Dec 1990 - 1st Web Browser (WorldWideWeb) - NeXTSTEP, white backgrounds, pointer cursor doesn't change over links, each link opens in a new window, WYSIWYG editor. Oct 1991 - HTML Tags (13 tags, 9 persisting) Oct 1991 - 1st reference to a "Home page" (www-talk) Dec 1991 - 2nd Website (Stanford) Dec 1991 - ViolaWWW Browser - "Visually Interactive Object-oriented Language and Application" It's Unix, HyperCard inspired - custom inline images, custom forms, a custom stylesheets implementation, a custom scripting language, a custom frames implementation Feb 1992 - 3rd Website (Dutch National Institute) Jun 1992 - www-talk mailing list blows up Jul 1992 - 1st Pic on the Web (Cernettes) Dec 1992 - MacWWW (Samba) - first Mac browser, though it's text-based. Code borrowed from line mode browser to Think-C. 1992 - 50-60 websites Jan 1993 - NCSA X Mosaic v0.5 - For Unix (X/Motif) Jan 1993 - First use of the term "web site" Mar 1993 - NCSA Mosaic v0.9 - JPEG support Mar 1993 - NCSA Mosaic v0.10 - IMG tag (inline images) Apr 1993 - Marc Andreesen posts "Beginner's Guide to HTML" Jun 1993 - NCSA Mosaic v1.1 - Image map support, cite, blockquote, var Jun 1993 - RFC for Stylesheets for HTML Jun 1993 - First Proposal for HTML spec (52 tags) Jun 1993 - Cello (browser) - First browser for Windows Jul 1993 - First reference to a "Homepage" - HTML+ spec draft Aug 1993 - Image Maps start showing up Sep 1993 - Mosaic released for Mac & Windows Nov 1993 - Mosaic 2.0 - Fill-out forms, br, hr - HTML+ (92 tags) Dec 1993 - CGI 1993 - MTV, Wired, Bloomberg, IMDB, 623 websites Sep 1994 - Netscape v0.4 - See pages and images as they load, public key cryptography (RSA) Sep 1994 - Netscape HTML Extensions (variable-size br, font sizes) Oct 1994 - Netscape 0.9 - cookies Nov 1994 - HTML 2 draft Nov 1994 - Arena (browser) - background images, tables, text flow around images 1994 - Over 10,000 websites Mar 1995 - Netscape v1.1 - support for tables, background images, background color Apr 1995 - HTML 3 draft May 1995 - MySQL Jun 1995 - PHP Aug 1995 - Internet Explorer Sep 1995 - Netscape 2 - Javascript, Java, frames, font colors, div, looping animated GIF, super/sub-script Oct 1995 - Internet Explorer 2 Nov 1995 - HTML 2 standard Mar 1996 - IE 3 Aug 1996 - Netscape 3 Dec 1996 - CSS1 Jan 1997 - HTML 3 standard Apr 1997 - IE 4 Jun 1997 - Netscape 4 (Communicator), CSS Nov 1997 - CSS2 Dec 1997 - HTML 4 standard Jun 1998 - IE 5 Aug 1998 - Flash Jun 1999 - CSS3 Jan 2008 - HTML 5 draft Oct 2014 - HTML 5 standard Notes ----- - HTML 3.0 (aka HTML+), says ViolaWWW start page - There is no carriage return (<BR>) in original HTML tags! - Lots of early web servers actually ran on port 8001... I think because lots of UNIX systems only allowed root to bind the first 1024 ports http://web.mit.edu/~mkgray/project/webio/output/port8001.html