Ancillary Product: Website Timeline

Morgan Redman

Bibliography• http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/03/11/world-wide-web-tim

eline/• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website#History

1989• The world wide web begins construction as a project of

the CERN organisation.• The project was given the names:• “Enquire”• “The Information Mesh”• “The Mine of Information”

1990• The world wide web, the first web browser, (shortened to

the initialism w.w.w.) was created in 1990 by the British physicist Tim Berners-Lee.

• “Archie” the first tool designed for searching the internet was invented by the McGill University student Alan Emtage.

1992• Tim Berners-Lee posts the first photograph on the world

wide web. This starts the process for interactivity and dynamic websites in the future.

• The line-mode world wide web browser launches.

1993• The world wide web was made free to use for the public. • The files on the internet were available to download and

were very plain and simple with basic navigation. • The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications

(NCSA) releases “Mosaic 1.0” which was the first publically popular web browser.

1994• 11 millions households are able to have easy access to

the internet. • One of the first ever known web purchases was made; the

purchase was a pizza from Pizza Hut.• Yahoo! is created by Stanford University.• Microsoft releases Windows 95.• First ever version of Internet Explorer released. • Amazon opens up.

1996• Nokia releases the Nokia 9000 Communicator which is the

first phone with internet capabilities. • Hotmail launches as one of the first webmail services.

Its name gave rise to the HTML internet language used to build webpages.

1997• Google.com registers as a domain.

1999• MP3 downloading service Napster launches. • Many places shut the site down before it is fully shut

down for allowing the illegal sharing of files.

2003• Apple launches iTunes music store with 200,000 songs

available. • Networking site LinkedIn launches.• Wordpress blog publishing system created.

2005• YouTube is founded on Valentines day.

2006• Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion. • Twitter is launched and Jack Dowsey sends the first

tweet.

2008• Google releases the Chrome Web browser.

2009• Microsoft releases the search engine Bing.

2010• Pinterest and Instagram launch.

Static Website• A web page that is received exactly as it is produced.• The page is unchanging and displays the same content to

all users.• Images are commonly used for aesthetics.• Audio and video can be used if they play automatically

and are non-interactive. • Quick to develop, cheap to develop and cheap to control.• Requires an expert in web development to update the

site, content remains unchanging.

Dynamic/ Interactive Website

• Perceived differently than when produced. • Uses hypertext navigation.• Changing situations can be conveyed. • Interactive using HTML, storing and browser cookies.• Allows for search bar key word searching.