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WDH Timeline

Almost every post published on Web Development History (WDH) was focused on a specific year. So you can read through them chronologically if you wish, here on Cybercultural.

Pre-History

  • 1968: The Mother of All Demos
  • 1969: Building the oN-Line System
  • The Time I Met Bill English

1990s

1990

  • Programming the World Wide Web

1991

  • Tim Berners-Lee Tries to Convert the Hypertext Faithful

1992

  • The Web vs Gopher, and the First External Browsers

1993

  • Mosaic Launches and the Web is Set Free
  • CGI Scripts and Early Server-Side Web Programming

1994

  • How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo

1995

  • The Birth of JavaScript
  • PHP Quietly Launches as a CGI Scripts Toolset
  • Apache and Microsoft IIS Shake Up the Web Server Market
  • MySQL Arrives, Completing the LAMP Stack

1996

  • JavaScript Annoyances and Meeting the DOM
  • Netscape Lays the Groundwork For Web Applications
  • Microsoft Activates the Internet With ActiveX & JScript
  • Flash and CSS Bring Design to the Web

1997

  • JavaScript Grows Up and Developers Push the Boundaries
  • The Year of DHTML
  • Netscape Crossware vs the Windows Web

1998

  • Open Season with Mozilla, W3C’s DOM, and WaSP

1999

  • The Fall of Netscape and the Rise of Mozilla
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