Today, I thought I would share with you some key moments in the history of the Web – the last twenty years with some major moments.
1991
The Enquire project launches World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee develops the first website.
1993
The year of Mosaic – the first web browser hits the market.
1995
HTML 2.0 – Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML 2.0, that becomes the first standard specification with the future ones to follow.
1996
Macromedia releases Flash 1 – a vector-based platform for multimedia on the web.
1998
Google launches a search engine that changes the way people search for content online
2002
Web 2.0 launches – the next generation of web technologies emerges to bring blogs and web applications to the masses.
2004
Facebook launches and changes the way people connect online, it is the year that starts social networking.
2008
Mobile devices start ruling – this is the first year when more people use mobile devices than computers to access internet.
