Web History

The TCP/IP network protocol was developed by the ARPANET network project, funded by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), laying the foundation of the Internet

MJ Marketing founder Mike A. Thomann researches computer science and the evolution of networked computing

Usenet is developed by Universities to connect and exchange news messages. Usenet is then connected to the ARPANET network through UC Berkeley in 1980

MJ Marketing founder Mike A. Thomann becomes a key member of the first Usenet newsgroups

Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist at CERN nuclear physics laboratory in Switzerland, invents the World Wide Web ("The Web") as a method for scientists to share information

Tim develops HTML, URI, and HTTP, which are the three foundations of the Web still in use today

Tim also wrote the first web page editor, browser, and web server

August 6, 1991, CERN posts a message to Usenet newsgroups inviting users to visit the first ever "Web Page"

MJ Marketing founder Mike A. Thomann begins managing hosted content on "The Web"

HTML 1.0 hypertext markup language is published

Mosaic web browser is released as the first to display both text and images on a page

MJ Marketing founder Mike A. Thomann adopts HTML 1.0 to develop websites for charity and explores the web's usefulness for business

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) founded as an international standards organization

Netscape Navigator web browser is released with marked advancements over Mosaic, launching the Internet age

MJ Marketing founder Mike A. Thomann launches MJ Marketing, Inc. web development company to bring the Web's benefit to business

MJ Marketing develops the first business websites for Netscape

Microsoft releases Internet Explorer web browser

MJ Marketing staff grows and adapts business websites optimized for Internet Explorer

Adobe Photoshop 3.0, CorelDraw 6 and Corel Xara are released to become the first graphics tools dedicated for web

MJ Marketing graphic designers provide ongoing feedback to Adobe and Corel for software improvements which are still in use today

MJ Marketing graphic designers create the first web icon library gaining widespread adoption through the early era of the Web

JavaScript programming language is deployed in Netscape Navigator 2.0 beta 3, providing the ability of the first browser-based interactivity

MJ Marketing develops the Web's first JavaScript interactive functions for business websites

SSH Telnet, a secure bidirectional interactive virtual terminal connection, is developed at Helsinki University of Technology

MJ Marketing adopts SSH to accommodate remote server management operations with improved security and operational efficiency

MJ Marketing programmers develop several of the Web's first server side Pearl/CGI programming scripts for online business

Netscape Navigator 2.0 adds animated GIF support

MJ Marketing creates the Web's first animated content for business websites

MJ Marketing creates the first animated icon libraries gaining adoption through the early era of the Web

Linux/Apache HTTP web server platform released

MJ Marketing mirgrates hosting services to Linux/Apache servers for greatly improved speed and security, and with new "virtual" hosting functionality for efficiency and performance for business

Java JDK 1.0 programming released

MJ Marketing programmers develop the Web's first Java interactive functions for business websites

Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3 web browser with "JScript" and proprietary HTML coding

In an attempt to control web standards, Microsoft's code is intentionally incompatible with Netscape's "JavaScript" and W3C HTML standards

This marks the beginning of "The Browser Wars" which evolves into ongoing intentional "compatibility conflicts" over the next 15 years

MJ Marketing programmers begin development initiative for extended "cross-browser" scripting libraries for open source communities to mitigate intentional incompatibilities, enabling enhanced web development to remain unhindered by incompatibilities of the browser wars

MJ Marketing develops exceptionally interactive websites of the era, incorporating its newly developed scripting libraries

Netscape releases SSL 3.0 as the first reliable web encryption protocol

MJ Marketing develops the Web's first online shopping cart stores built upon Pearl/CGI programming and SSL encrytion

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is officially published to The W3C

MJ Marketing adopts CSS for business websites enabling a new level of enhanced visuals and robust coding

RealNetworks releases RealVideo as the first video streaming technology

MJ Marketing incorporates RealVideo into the first business websites with multimedia streaming

MivaScript programming language and MIVA Merchant online shopping cart system are released

MJ Marketing develops and implements the Web's first MIVA Merchant stores for online business with improved functionality and user experience over Pearl/CGI

PHP emerges as the fastest growing server side programming language

MJ Marketing adopts PHP for all custom scripts and form mail functions

MJ Marketing programmers provide feedback and input into the PHP development forum

MJ Marketing programmers develop and deploy the Web's first PHP driven shopping carts with full featured backend management systems

MJ Marketing programmers create among the very first real-time secure credit card payment gateways for online shopping

Red Hat Linux goes public and becomes the most widely used Linux operating system distribution in use for web servers

MJ Marketing implements Red Hat and provides feedback and speed optimization recommendations for future Red Hat Linux distribution releases

The Internet reaches mainstram growth with 38% household saturation

The dotcom bubble begins to burst and the Dow Jones sees its biggest one-day drop in history to date

The vast majority of dotcom companies are extinct by 2001

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"Entrepreneur Magazine" ranks MJ Marketing's subsidiary hosting company #1 hosting provider in "Hosts With The Most" feature article

MJ Marketing continues to develop unique interactive websites, online stores, and complex custom programming projects

MJ Marketing programmers contribute to the development of the upcoming "osCommerce" open source shopping cart through "The Exchange Project"

osCommerce Milestone 1 is released in 2003 as the most advanced open source online store with administrative back end based on PHP programming language and MySQL database

MJ Marketing increases its client portfolio with osCommerce-based online stores

To circumvent Microsoft dominance in "The Browser Wars", Netscape releases its code as open-source

Mozilla Foundation rewrites the code into its new Gecko rendering engine and releases the first ever Firefox web browser

Firefox quickly becomes the first real competitor to Microsoft dominance, with speed and feature improvements over Microsoft's Internet Explorer

MJ Marketing programmers contribute to the Mozilla Project with the goal of bringing an end to the browser wars

MJ Marketing immediately adapts business websites for full compatibility with FireFox

Adobe Flash gains widespread adoption as a single unified streaming media format

MJ Marketing transitions business media from RealVideo to Adobe Flash format, and develops Flash based media players custom tailored to business needs

WordPress blogging system with content management system (CMS) begins growth

MJ Marketing develops WordPress websites and assists businesses with managing self updates

ZenCart shopping cart surpasses osCommerce in features, reliability, scalability and performance

MJ Marketing contributes to ZenCart open source development project

MJ Marketing develops new ZenCart online stores and migrates existing stores to ZenCart

YouTube becomes the first popular video hosting and streaming service site

MJ Marketing begins transitioning video streaming to YouTube based on specific business needs

Google launches Google Analytics service in November 2005. To this day, Google Analytics is the most widely used web analytics service on the web

MJ Marketing leverages Google Analytics with MJ Marketing's own internal web traffic solutions to monitor, analyze and optimize web traffic and performance

Joomla content management system (CMS) begins industry growth and quickly surpasses WordPress in global usage

MJ Marketing develops Joomla websites and assists businesses with updates

HTML5 extended markup language released

MJ Marketing incorporates new HTML5 markup functions into business websites and MJ Marketing hosted video services

Need emerges for faster and easier content updates than currently available content management systems (CMS) applications provide for businesses

MJ Marketing programmers develop proprietary robust "Web Edit Live" content management system (CMS) for greatly improved speed, ease of use, and functionality over existing CMS applications

Over the years, Web Edit Live has been updated to include online ordering, and full back end administration, and is still in use today by select clients

Google Chrome web browser released, eventually surpasses Internet Explorer ending the Microsoft monopoly

MJ Marketing ensures business website compatibility with Google Chrome

WordPress matures to meet the needs of modern online business websites and surpasses Joomla in global usage

MJ Marketing develops both WordPress and Web Edit Live website solutions based on business needs

CSS version 2.1 becomes a milestone as the first style sheet specification supported universally by all web browsers, approaching the end of the browser war era

MJ Marketing incorporates new CSS to streamline away from coding libraries previously required for cross-browser compatibility

Mobile web usage begins mass proliferation. By 2016, mobile Internet usage surpasses desktop usage

MJ Marketing develops efficient and scalable mobile compatible websites

cPanel emerges as the most powerful, secure and efficient web server management system

MJ Marketing migrates business client hosting accounts to cPanel web servers, providing premium service at reduced cost

MJ Marketing provides feedback to cPanel development team for ongoing improvements

HTML5 undergoes major updates and "W3C Recommendation" status with improved support for the latest multimedia and other new features

MJ Marketing leverages the advancements of new HTML5 updates for business websites

Google rolls out new PageRank algorithm which incorporates the mobile-friendly test, giving instant search result boost to mobile compatible websites

MJ Marketing adopts leading edge Mobile Responsive Web Design practices into all business websites

Google rolls out new PageRank algorithm incorporating page speed factor, giving instant search result boost to faster loading websites

MJ Marketing develops and adopts speed optimization methodologies and caching systems far surpassing majority of web services, providing significant measurable competitive advantage

New exciting major advancements in visual enhancement and interactive Web standards emerge

MJ Marketing takes full advantage of new Web advancements for business