Sunday, May 16, 2010

HOMEWORK - Timeline of history of the web

In 1980 Tim Berners-Lee built ENQUIRE as a personal database of people and software models, but also as a way to play with hypertext.

In March 1989 Berners-Lee wrote a proposa for "a large hypertext database with typed links", but it generated little interest

By Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web

On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.

From 1992-1995 the world wide web was mainly used by university-based scientific departments or physics laboratories

In April 1992 the release of Erwise, a graphical browser

In 1993 Mosaic graphical browser was introduced

In May 1994 the first International WWW Conference, organized by Robert Cailliau, was held at CERN

In September 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium

1996-98 the Web became more Commercialised

1999-2001 there was a large increase in dot-com sites, but most of these went bust after they burnt through their venture capital.

In the aftermath of the dot-com bubble, telecommunications companies had a great deal of overcapacity as many Internet business clients went bust. That, plus ongoing investment in local cell infrastructure kept connectivity charges low, and helping to make high-speed Internet connectivity more affordable.

With advancements in coding more sites aimed at providing the user with a more enjoyable experience, such sites as Google, Ebay and Amazon sprung up giving people the chance to buy and sell products and easily find thing via the web.

And over the past few years such sites as Myspace and Facebook have poped up allowing people to stay connected via the web

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