Dot-com
Internet history during the dot-com era, from the 1990s through to the first few years of the 2000s.
Note: some of these articles were migrated from my previous website, Web Development History (WDH), which was active during 2021. Check the timeline for a chronological list of WDH posts.
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1995: The Birth of JavaScript
JavaScript was invented in a two-week flurry in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, a newly hired developer at browser company Netscape. The idea was to extend the early Web beyond the limits of HTML.
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Paradise Lost: How Moreover Won & Lost the Real-Time Web
News aggregator Moreover was born in the late 1990s, at the same time as Google, and at one point dominated the real-time news market. So why did Moreover turn its back on the consumer web?
