WEB TIMELINE

Catherine V. Aga
12-Morgan
The founding of World Wide Web in 1989 has touched the heart
of the billions of people around the world and fundamentally
changed how we connect with others, the nature of our work,
how we discover and share news and new ideas, how we
entertain ourselves and how communities form and function.

The timeline at the next slide shows the beginning of an effort to

capture both the major milestones and small moments that have
shaped the Web since 1989.
 WEB 1.0

1989 1990 1991 1992

1994

The World Wide Tim Berners-Lee Researchers rig up a live Tim Berners-Lee One of the first
Web begins as a CERN shot of a coffee pot so
(European Organization for develops the first posts the first known Web
Nuclear Research) project
they could tell from purchases takes
called ENQUIRE, initiated by Web their computer screens photo, of the band
place: a pepperoni
British scientist Tim Berners- browser WorldWi when a fresh pot had “Les Horribles
Lee. Other names considered been brewed. pizza with
for the project include “The deWeb. Cernettes,” on the mushrooms and
Information Mesh” and “The Later connected to the
Mine of Information.” World Wide Web, it Web. extra cheese from
becomes the first Pizza Hut.
webcam.
 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

Amazon.com Nokia releases the OL launches AOL 4.0

Netflix launches and inundates
MP3 downloading service
opens for Nokia 9000 American homes with
Napster launches,
as a overloading high-speed
business, billing Communicator, CD-ROM mailers. AOL networks in college
company that the first cellphone membership jumps dormitories. Many colleges
itself as the ban the service and it is later
sends DVDs to with internet
from 8 million to 16 shut down for enabling the
“Earth’s Biggest million members. illegal sharing of music files.
homes via mail capabilities.
Bookstore.”
 WEB 2.0

2002 2003 2004 2007 2010

Social MySpace.com is MySpace.com is

founded and founded and quickly Apple releases Social photo-
networking site
quickly adopted adopted by its first iPhone, sharing
Friendster.com musicians seeking to
by musicians priced at $499 sites Pinterest a
launches, but is seeking to share share music and
for 4GB and nd Instagram la
quickly overtak music and build build their fan bases.
$599 for 8G. unch
en by Facebook. their fan bases.
 WEB 3.0

2011 2013

LinkedIn reaches 100 Former CIA employee and

million users and debuts NSA contractor Edward
on NYSE. Snowden turns over
thousands of classified
documents to media
Microsoft buys Skype for
organizations, exposing a
$8.5 billion. top-secret government data
surveillance program.
 WEB SITE VS. WEB APPLICATION
WEB SITE
A website is a group of globally accessible,
interlinked web pages which have a single
domain name. It can be developed and
maintained by an individual, business or
organization. The website aims to serve a
variety of purposes. Example: Blogs.
A website is hosted on a single or multiple
web server. It is accessible via a network like
the Internet or a private local area network via
IP address.
WEB APPLICATION
A web application is a software or program
which is accessible using any web browser. Its
frontend is usually created using languages like
HTML, CSS, Javascript, which are supported by
major browsers. While the backend could use any
programming stack like LAMP, MEAN, etc. Unlike
mobile apps, there is no specific SDK for developing
web applications.
Web Applications came to prominence with the
advent of Software as a Service (SaaS) movement.