1995
Articles tagged 1995.
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1995: From Batman Forever’s cinematic design to HTML tables
1995 begins with web designers creating cinematic experiences using images and browser tricks, and ends with the arrival of table support in Netscape Navigator — giving true control over layout.
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David Bowie’s Early Websites, 1995–1997: Outside to Earthling
During the mid-90s, David Bowie's website goes from a storytelling structure for the Outside album, to a striking, grunge-inspired design for Earthling. At the same time, Bowie fan sites emerge.
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What the Internet Was Like in 1995
In 1995, Netscape goes public and Microsoft notices the internet — the browser wars begin. Also this year, Amazon and eBay launch, JavaScript and PHP debut, and the web becomes mainstream.
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Cyberspace Movies in 1995: Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood
Three Hollywood movies are 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, is 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) are in place. However, MySQL is not initially open source.
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1995: Apache and Microsoft IIS Shake Up Web Server Market
In April 1995, the Apache Web Server Project announces a new 'public-domain HTTP server'. Soon after, Microsoft announces its 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) launches — and hardly anyone notices. PHP isn’t a scripting language at this point, but it will eventually become one.
