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a brief history of web design

  • 1991

    Tim Berners-Lee combined Internet communication with hypertext, which resulted in the birth of the World Wide Web (WWW).
  • 1993

    Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina from the NCSA released the first version of Mosaic for X-Windows on Unix computers in February, 1993. A version for the Macintosh was developed by Aleks Totic and released a few months later, making Mosaic the first browser with cross-platform support. Mosaic introduced support for sound, video clips, forms support, bookmarks, and history files, and quickly became the most popular non-commercial web browser.
  • 1995

    JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape under the name Mocha, which was later renamed to LiveScript, and finally to JavaScript mainly because it was more influenced by the Java programming language. LiveScript was the official name for the language when it first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995, but it was renamed JavaScript in a joint announcement with Sun Microsystems on December 4, 1995, when it was deployed in the Netscape browser version 2.0B3
  • 1997

    Google was formed and Google search was launched. Google Search is now the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, receiving several hundred million queries each day through its various services.
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