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ISC340 Web Programming. Internet Success Stories. Yahoo!. The first popular Web search engine. Created by two graduate electrical engineering in Stanford University, David Filo and Jerry Yang.
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ISC340 Web Programming Internet Success Stories
Yahoo! • The first popular Web search engine. • Created by two graduate electrical engineering in Stanford University, David Filo and Jerry Yang. • Started in January 1994 as a website collecting links to other websites organized in categories. It was called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. • The domain changed to Yahoo.com in January 1995 after it received one million hits. • Yahoo became a company worth 33.8 Million dollars on April 1996. • Programming languages used to create the website: HTML, Javascript, PHP
. • The most popular video sharing website. • Created by Chad hurley, Steve Chen and Jawad Karim in November 2005. • In 2006 it was the 5th most popular website on the web. • In November 2006 it was sold to Google for 1.65 Billion dollars. • Programming languages used to create the website: HTML, javascript, flash
Facebook • A social network having one Billion users. • Created by Mark Zuckerberg (20 years old) in February 2004 as a social network for Harvard University students. • After it became popular it expanded to other universities and in 2006 anyone can be a member of the website. • In 2008 the value of the website became 4 Billion dollars. • Programming languages used to create the website: HTML, javascript, java, PHP
Your website • Create your own idea. • Started in Kuwait University in 2014. • Programming languages used to create the website: HTML, CSS, javascript, XML, XSLT