1993
Articles tagged 1993.
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1993: Global Network Navigator and the first web designer
It's difficult to apply design to a website in 1993, but that doesn't stop O'Reilly & Associates from launching an 'online magazine' called GNN. Suddenly Jennifer Niederst, a book designer, has a new career.
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1993: Web browsers add multimedia and MTV.com goes online
Mosaic adds an image tag to HTML and becomes the first modern web browser in 1993. Soon after, MTV VJ Adam Curry builds one of the world's first commercial websites — not that his bosses care.
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1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Becomes Open Source
On 21 April 1993, Marc Andreessen announces NCSA Mosaic 1.0, the first version of its multimedia browser. Just over a week later, CERN gifts the World Wide Web to the world as open source software.
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1993: CGI Scripts and Early Server-Side Web Programming
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) in 1993 is the start of web applications. On the early Web, it typically takes the form of Perl scripts for features like contact forms and guest books.
