Season 2
Season 2 of Cybercultural (published mostly over 2021) covers web development history in the 1990s, with a few pre-web history posts.
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1996: Microsoft Activates the Internet With ActiveX, JScript
In March 1996, Bill Gates announces a set of internet technologies called ActiveX. It is the moment web companies had feared — Microsoft is embedding the Internet into its Windows OS.
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1969: Building the oN-Line System
On October 1, 1969, ten months after the historic Mother Of All Demos, Doug Engelbart from the Augmentation Research Center gives a second demonstration of the pioneering NLS.
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1996: Netscape Lays the Groundwork for Web Applications
Netscape Navigator 3.0 is a 'universal client' to help expand what HTML can do. But Netscape is also looking to broaden its product offering with a suite of tools it calls Netscape Communicator.
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1968: The Mother of All Demos
It's December 9, 1968, and Douglas Engelbart is about to showcase the world’s first personal, networked, computer — as a live demo. It’s the computing equivalent of a high-wire trapeze act with no net.
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1996: JavaScript Annoyances and Meeting the DOM
Other than homepages sprinkled with little animations, scrolling text, and embedded digital clocks, adventurous corporate webmasters begin to experiment with JavaScript in early 1996.
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1995: The Birth of JavaScript
JavaScript is invented in a two-week flurry in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, a newly hired developer at browser company Netscape. The idea is to extend the early Web beyond the limits of HTML.
