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Web Dev History 1987-1999
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22 Feb 2020
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Web Development Prehistory
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Ismael Velasco
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- Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture (Buschmann/POF) - Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community (Richard P. Gabriel)
- Mosaic Web Browser - Internet = 130 websites
- W3C web standards - 1st popular web hosting: Geocities - Registration services for .com, .net, .org and .gov
- Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Helm/GOF)
- Internet = 23,000 pages, 16 million web users, 4 million hosts - First WIki - About Design Patterns - "User Experience" coined - Amazon, Ebay, Internet Explorer,Yahoo search
- PHP / Ruby / Java / JavaScript - HTML standards - HTTP V1.0-
- Scrum: "An extension pattern language for hyperproductive software development" (Mike Beedle)
- 1st Website - Internet = 1 website, 20 users - 42% of American adults have used a computer
- WorldWideWeb invented
- 1st Web purchase ≈ a pepperoni pizza with mushrooms and extra cheese from Pizza Hut. - “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” (Yahoo! ) - 1st banner ad ≈ hotwired.com: “Have you ever clicked your mouse right HERE? —> YOU WILL.” - 1st spam message ≈ “Green Card Lottery -Final One?” - 1st blog ≈ Justin Halls's internet diary
- 1st Web photo, of the band “Les Horribles Cernettes,” - “Surfing the internet” coined.
- Nokia releases the Nokia 9000 Communicator, the first cellphone with internet capabilities - Hotmail - The Dancing Baby ≈ first viral video
- Google.com registers as a domain
- Oxford Dictionary adds "spam" - Fastest consumer internet: 56kbs - 1st meme ≈ “All your base are belong to us”
- First Wiki (WikiWikiWeb): focus = design patterns - Dot-com boom (bust = 2001!) -"Blog" coined by Peter Merholz (building on 1997 weblog) - "Web 2.0" coined by DiNucci - Internet users = 150 million (50% in USA)
- CSS 1
- Wi-Fi invented-
Line-mode browser launches. 1st usable browser.-
MySQL introduced
Design Patterns introduced to OOP community
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