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

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

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"

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

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

Microsoft releases Internet Explorer web browser

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

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

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

Netscape Navigator 2.0 adds animated GIF support

Linux/Apache HTTP web server platform released

Java JDK 1.0 programming released

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

Netscape releases SSL 3.0 as the first reliable web encryption protocol

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

RealNetworks releases RealVideo as the first video streaming technology

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

PHP emerges as the fastest growing server side programming language

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

YouTube becomes the first popular video hosting and streaming service site

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

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

HTML5 extended markup language released

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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