Lesson 1.

1: History of
Website Development
 History
1969 The internet is born, but there
is no such thing as a website.

1991 The worlds first website arrive.

Made by Tim Berbers-Lee
Ran on a NeXT computer at the European
Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN
Largest particle physics laboratory in the world
Located in Geneva, Switzerland
Birthplace of the World Wide Web
 History cont.
The first web page address: http://
info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Taken on
1992
 History cont.
1994 Netscape, Yahoo, and Amazon
launch. The at sign @ generates
confusion among newscasters.
Symbol to separate the name of the
user from the users internet address

dpgramos@gmail.com
 History cont.
1997 The 1,000,000th domain
launches. Time magazine announces,
Welcome to the wired world.
 History cont.
2000 Dot-com boom peaks. PHP 4.0 released,
the first purpose-built language for websites.
recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

2001 Geocities.com gets more traffic than

Google.
Drupal 1.0 released.
open source software that can be used by individuals or
groups of users -- even those lacking technical skills

2002 Wifi goes mainstream.

 History cont.
2004 Web 2.0; The Internet
becomes a two-way street.
Businesses demand tools to manage
their sites, but most development still
done on live servers via FTP.
Examples of Web 2.0 include:
social networking sites, blogs, wikis,
folksonomies, video sharing sites, hosted
services, Web applications, collaborative
consumption platforms, and mashups
 History cont.
2007 iPhone 1 is released.
Local development tools like MAMP
appear, a first step towards setting
developers free from managing servers.
acronym of :
Mac OS X, the operating system;
Apache, the web server;
MySQL, the database management system; and
PHP, Perl, or Python, all programming languages
 History cont.
2009 Cloud computing takes off.
using a network of remote servers hosted on
the Internet to store, manage, and process
data, rather than a local server or a personal
computer
Github.com launches.
is a web-based GIT repository hosting
service
Developers feel the pain of fragmented
environments.
 History cont.
2010 DevOps becomes a
household word.
Drupal project transitions to git,
developers cheer.

Today 200 million websites are live

on the internet.