1995
Articles tagged 1995.
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David Bowie’s Early Websites, 1995–1997: Outside to Earthling
During the mid-90s, David Bowie's website went from a storytelling structure for the Outside album, into a striking, grunge-inspired design for Earthling. At the same time, Bowie fan sites emerged.
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What the Internet Was Like in 1995
In 1995, Netscape went public and Microsoft noticed the internet — the browser wars began. Also that year, Amazon and eBay launched, JavaScript and PHP debuted, and the web went mainstream.
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Cyberspace Movies in 1995: Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood
Three Hollywood movies were released in 1995 with internet themes: the Keanu Reeves cyberpunk film Johnny Mnemonic (with an accompanying website), The Net with Sandra Bullock, and Hackers.
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GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet
GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy for people to publish a home page on the World Wide Web.
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1995: MySQL Debuts and Web Databases Slowly Emerge
By the end of 1995, the foundational pieces of the open source LAMP stack for web development (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) were in place. However, MySQL was not initially open source.
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1995: Apache and Microsoft IIS Shake Up Web Server Market
The Apache Web Server Project announced a new 'public-domain HTTP server' in April 1995. That was followed soon after by Microsoft's first web server software, Internet Information Server.
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1995: PHP Launches As Server-Side CGI Scripts Toolset
In mid-1995, a toolset called Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) was launched — and hardly anyone noticed. PHP wasn’t a scripting language at this point, but it would eventually become one.
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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.
