A Short History of the World Wide Web

This short version of the evolution of the World Wide Web states some of the most important and meaningful events that have made the web what it is today: A Platform Used by 2,802,478,934 People Worldwide!

Growth and Regulations Summary Interactive Websites appeared marking the beginning of Web 2.0 SEO appeared, looking to optimise information within search engines Browsers started competing for market share Web is now used by everyone: young, old and even royalties Web 2.0 Era The internet opened for commerce and public use W3C established internet regulations for all Popular websites started shaping the Web 1.0 More Browsers Appeared Search Engines were born to organise information Growth and Regulations First Browser was written First hyperlink was created Involved only scientists, CERN and some businesses Creation of Internet

Why Talking About The WWW Because the World Wide Web achieved tremendous success since its creation . It is also a good way to celebrate its 25th anniversary!

What Made the Internet Possible? The ability to connect individual documents on the web through browsers and hyperlinks.

On the left is our timeline starting in 1989.

The World Wide Web 1989 Tim Berners-Lee wrote the World Wide Web (later renamed to Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) making the first connection between web documents. This was established over what is today known as the Internet References www.asiantribune.com

First Browser 1989 The first Web Browser, called “WorldWideWeb”, used a ‘hyperlink’ through which by people could ‘navigate’ from one document to another. References W3 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

The Hypertext 1989 Instead of many individual documents, the web was now able to make connections. The WorldWideWeb (W3) allowed a wide-area hypermedia information offering access to a large universe of information. References http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/web.html

Websites Started to Connect Document 1 Document 2 Website

The Browser This is what the browser used to look like 1989 References Image credits http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html

Web 1.0 Began to Develop From now, information become more interconnected, websites started growing in popularity, the web opened to business and the public. 1999 References Web 1.0 The term was coined in 1999 by Darcy Di Nucci and was popularized by Tim O'Reilly at the O'Reilly Media

Who Was The Web For Scientists, CERN Businesses Created online documents /websites Businesses Opened Websites/ Public Page Government Started having public information published on the web Users owing a desktop

The Web Opened for Commerce 1989 The first commercial dialup ISP (internet service provider) in the United States was The World, which is still active today. On the right is what The World used to look like in 1989 References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_(Internet_service_provider)

Marketing Adopts Digital Trends The first company to adopt digital marketing strategy was Apple in 1987. The term ‘Digital Marketing' appeared later, around 1990s, to describe the engagement with stakeholders through the use of electronic devices. 1990 References Mashable http://mashable.com/2012/09/25/the-evolution-of-digital-advertising-infographic/ Image credits artfashion.am

The Web Becomes Public April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web technology would be available for anyone to use on a royalty-free basis. This is how the public web used to look like then. 1993 References http://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/

First Public Web Browser Mosaic was the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web and this is how it used to look like then... 1993 References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/birth-web

The Web Consortium To regulate the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium. W3C gives technical support and guidelines that aims to maximise consensus about the web content and to ensure high standards. 1994 References http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ http://www.w3.org/standards/

Yahoo was Launched Yahoo! Inc., one of the most important multinational Internet corporations, was launched by Jerry Yang and David Filo in Sunnyvale, California. This is what Yahoo! Used to look back then… 1994 References This is what Yahoo’s interface used to look like back in 2006 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular-websites-looked-when-they-launched.html

Amazon was Launched Amazon, one of the most important electronic commerce websites was founded by Jeff Bezos, where everyone could sell products. Today Amazon is the largest Internet based companies in the US, and this is what it used to look like in 1994… 1994 References This is what Amazon’s interface used to look like back in 1994 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular-websites-looked-when-they-launched.html

Netscape Release Netscape Today Netscape in 1995 Netscape, once dominant browser, was founded in 1995. In the firs web browser war Netscape lost to Internet Explorer Netscape Today Netscape in 1995 1995 References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape http://isp.netscape.com/

More Browsers Were Born Opera and Internet Explorer, other popular web browsers, were first released in 1995. That’s what was their interface back then… 1995 References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape http://isp.netscape.com/

1996 Google Came to Be Google, the most popular search engine in the West, began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. Google looked quite different in 1996… 1996 References This is what Google’s interface used to look like back in 1996 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular-websites-looked-when-they-launched.html

Baidu was Launched Baidu, the most popular search engine in Asia, was founded on 18th of January 2000, by Robin Li. This it is what the Chinese web services company looked like in 2000. 2000

Web 2.0 Started Developing This meant that the web become from broadcasting platform a two way interaction media through use of blogs, applications and social media channels. 1999 References Web 1.0 The term was coined in 1999 by Darcy Di Nucci and was popularized by Tim O'Reilly at the O'Reilly Media http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-101.htm

Web 2.0 Made of Relationships Businesses Web Users Public Bodies

Web 1.o vs. Web 2.0 Web Platform Web User Web User Organisations Documents Websites Web User Web Platform Web User

Web 1.0 Web 2.0 References O'Reilly Media DoubleClick Google AdSense Ofoto Flickr Akamai BitTorrent mp3.com Napster Britannica Online Wikipedia personal websites blogging evite upcoming.org and EVDB domain name speculation search engine optimization page views cost per click screen scraping web services publishing participation content management systems wikis directories (taxonomy) tagging ("folksonomy") stickiness syndication References O'Reilly Media

Web Was on Mobile… Ericsson R380 was a GSM (Global System for Mobile) mobile phone made by Ericsson Mobile Communications It was the first device marketed as a "smartphone" 2000

Wikipedia was Launched One of the first websites that allowed people to have a more interactive relationship with the Web. The free-access/free content Internet encyclopaedia is supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. This is how the website’s logo changed over the years… 2001 References www.logoinlogo.com

Myspace was launched One of the first social media platforms and one of the main contributors to the evolution of the Web was Myspace. The social network service, with strong music emphasis was founded by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe. It looked like that… Today it’s owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake 2003 References This is what MySpace’s interface used to look like back in 2003 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular-websites-looked-when-they-launched.html

Safari was Launched Safari, Apple’s browser, was Launched in 2003 by Steve Jobs. Competition between browsers increased, giving users improved experience, service and offering more choices. 2003 References Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ZNXQujgXw https://www.apple.com/uk/safari/

Word Press was Founded One of the first and most important CMS (content management systems) based on PHP and MySQL was founded in 2003 and it looked like this… The free and open source blogging tool, which also characterised the Web 2.0, is today used by over 409 million people each month! 2003 References http://en.wordpress.com/stats/

Digital Jobs Were Created New jobs were created through the use of internet to satisfy commercial or private demand on the market. Many marketing agencies were founded and offered a combination of services for the Web growth. 2003 References http://www.fingo.co.uk/who-we-are/

Firefox was Released Firefox, one of the most popular and used browsers today, was launched in 2004 looking like this… The browser has over 7% market share today. 2004 References http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0

Browsers Market Share Today References http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0

(the) Facebook was Founded Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes created the largest today social media network at the Harvard University . It was named the Facebook and it looked like this 2004 References This is what Facebook’s interface used to look like back in 2004 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular-websites-looked-when-they-launched.html

Responsive Design Since Web was now accessed through various platforms, there was a need to adapt the website technology accordingly. In 2004 Responsive Design was born, written by Cameron Adams to adapt a site's layout to a device's display 2004 References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design http://www.fingo.co.uk/blog/detail/responsive-design.-youve-probably-heard-it-mentioned-now-let-us-explain-it/

WST Was Launched To further support the growing digital phenomena, Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues started the Web Science Trust (WST) 2005 References webscience.me

You Tube Was Founded The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and has been owned by Google since late 2006. 2005 References History of You Tube’s Layout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ckPPOpqNVc

SEO Became a Web Practice SEO started emerging as a practice of optimising information for search engines. Dr. Clinton Cimring, is credited by Google as being the person who invented the idea of SEO 2.0 and was the first person to launch the approach under SEO Treo in 2006. 2006 References http://www.searchenginejournal.com/who-invented-the-term-search-engine-optimization-part-deux/3925/

Twitter was Founded Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets“ This is what twitter used to look like back then 2006 References This is what Twitter’s interface used to look like back in 2006 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular-websites-looked-when-they-launched.html

Mobile Access to the Web iPhone began to change the web one more time and everything began to shift to cater to the mobile user. 2007 References www.mobify.com

The Web had 1 trillion public pages! Web Publications The Web had 1 trillion public pages! 2008

The Web Compared to Other Media This is how other media reached 50 million users compared to the Web: Radio took 38 years Television took 13 years Web took 4 years Facebook took just 10 months 2013 References Image credit accountablemedia.co.za

Current Internet Users In the World Today, the web has over 3,000,000,000 users worldwide! References http://www.worldometers.info/ 2014

Live Updates on the Web The Web today is first source of information for the media. BBC incorporates Twitter for Live Updates 2014

Information Flow On The Internet Organisation's websites Government/ Educational Websites Blogs Social Media Posts Business Websites

Everyone Use the Web!

Oct. 24, 2014 Queen Elizabeth II Sent Her First Tweet

Web Stats Right Now: 2014