Ancillary Product Website Timeline
- 3. 1989 • The world wide web begins construction as a project of the CERN organisation. • The project was given the names: • “Enquire” • “The Information Mesh” • “The Mine of Information”
- 4. 1990 • The world wide web, the first web browser, (shortened to the initialism w.w.w.) was created in 1990 by the British physicist Tim Berners-Lee. • “Archie” the first tool designed for searching the internet was invented by the McGill University student Alan Emtage.
- 5. 1992 • Tim Berners-Lee posts the first photograph on the world wide web. This starts the process for interactivity and dynamic websites in the future. • The line-mode world wide web browser launches.
- 6. 1993 • The world wide web was made free to use for the public. • The files on the internet were available to download and were very plain and simple with basic navigation. • The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) releases “Mosaic 1.0” which was the first publically popular web browser.
- 7. 1994 • 11 millions households are able to have easy access to the internet. • One of the first ever known web purchases was made; the purchase was a pizza from Pizza Hut. • Yahoo! is created by Stanford University. • Microsoft releases Windows 95. • First ever version of Internet Explorer released. • Amazon opens up.
- 8. 1996 • Nokia releases the Nokia 9000 Communicator which is the first phone with internet capabilities. • Hotmail launches as one of the first webmail services. Its name gave rise to the HTML internet language used to build webpages.
- 9. 1997 • Google.com registers as a domain.
- 10. 1999 • MP3 downloading service Napster launches. • Many places shut the site down before it is fully shut down for allowing the illegal sharing of files.
- 11. 2003 • Apple launches iTunes music store with 200,000 songs available. • Networking site LinkedIn launches. • Wordpress blog publishing system created.
- 12. 2005 • YouTube is founded on Valentines day.
- 13. 2006 • Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion. • Twitter is launched and Jack Dowsey sends the first tweet.
- 14. 2008 • Google releases the Chrome Web browser.
- 15. 2009 • Microsoft releases the search engine Bing.
- 16. 2010 • Pinterest and Instagram launch.
- 17. Static Website • A web page that is received exactly as it is produced. • The page is unchanging and displays the same content to all users. • Images are commonly used for aesthetics. • Audio and video can be used if they play automatically and are non-interactive. • Quick to develop, cheap to develop and cheap to control. • Requires an expert in web development to update the site, content remains unchanging.
- 18. Dynamic/ Interactive Website • Perceived differently than when produced. • Uses hypertext navigation. • Changing situations can be conveyed. • Interactive using HTML, storing and browser cookies. • Allows for search bar key word searching.