History of the WWW
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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
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- 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
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