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A Short History of the World Wide Web

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!. Summary. Why Talking About The WWW.

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A Short History of the World Wide Web

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  1. A Short History of the World Wide Web

  2. 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!

  3. Summary

  4. 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!

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

  6. 1989 On the left is our timeline starting in 1989.

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

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

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

  10. Websites Started to Connect

  11. 1989 The Browser This is what the browser used to look like References Image credits http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html

  12. Web 1.0 Began to Develop 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 From now, information become more interconnected, websites started growing in popularity, the web opened to business and the public.

  13. Who Was The Web For Users owing a desktop

  14. The Web Opened for Commerce 1989 References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_(Internet_service_provider) 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

  15. Marketing Adopts Digital Trends 1990 References Mashablehttp://mashable.com/2012/09/25/the-evolution-of-digital-advertising-infographic/ Image credits artfashion.am • 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.

  16. The Web Becomes Public 1993 References http://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/ • 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.

  17. 1993 First Public Web Browser Mosaic was the web browsercredited with popularizing the World Wide Web and this is how it used to look like then... References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/birth-web

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

  19. Yahoo was Launched 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 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…

  20. Amazon was Launched 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 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…

  21. Netscape Release 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/

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

  23. 1996 Google Came to Be 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 • 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…

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

  25. Web 2.0 Started Developing 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 This meant that the web become from broadcasting platform a two way interaction media through use of blogs, applications and social media channels.

  26. Web 2.0 Made of Relationships

  27. Web 1.o vs. Web 2.0 Web User

  28. References O'Reilly Media

  29. Web Was on Mobile… 2000 • Ericsson R380 was a GSM (Global System for Mobile) mobile phonemade byEricsson Mobile • Communications • It was the first device marketed as a "smartphone"

  30. Wikipedia was Launched 2001 References www.logoinlogo.com 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…

  31. Myspace was launched 2003 • References • This is what MySpace’sinterface used to look like back in 2003 • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular-websites-looked-when-they-launched.html • One of the first social media platforms and one of the main contributors to the evolution of the Web was Myspace. • Thesocial 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

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

  33. Word Press was Founded 2003 References http://en.wordpress.com/stats/ • 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!

  34. Digital Jobs Were Created 2003 References http://www.fingo.co.uk/who-we-are/ 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.

  35. 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

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

  37. (the) Facebook was Founded Mark Zuckerbergwith his college roommates and fellowstudents 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

  38. 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/

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

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

  41. SEO Became a Web Practice 2006 References http://www.searchenginejournal.com/who-invented-the-term-search-engine-optimization-part-deux/3925/ • 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. 

  42. Twitter was Founded 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 • 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

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

  44. Web Publications 2008 • The Web had 1 trillion public pages!

  45. The Web Compared to Other Media 2013 • References • Image credit accountablemedia.co.za • 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

  46. Current Internet Users In the World • References • http://www.worldometers.info/ 2014 Today, the web has over3,000,000,000 users worldwide!

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

  48. Information Flow On The Internet

  49. Everyone Use the Web!

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