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Sunday, September 5, 2021

Basic timeline of the World Wide Web

This post is a basic timeline of the World Wide Web. There are 15 events listed below chronologically.

• Tim Berners Lee creates the World Wide Web (1989)
• HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) (1990)
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML) (1990)
• WorldWideWeb browser (1990)
• HTTP server software (1990)
• MPEG video format (1991)
• JPEG image format (1992)
• NSCA Mosaic (1993)
• Netscape Navigator (1994)
• First International WWW Conference (1994)
• World Wide Web Consortium (1994)
• Microsoft Explorer (1995)
• Google Search (1998)
• Wikipedia (2001)
• Dot-com bubble crash (2001)

Sources

Wikipedia: History of the World Wide Web, Wikipedia