Twenty years of web design
Post date: May 03, 2011 7:35:13 AM
Can you believe that the first published website is already 20 years old? Web design has come a long way since the first website was published by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. This infographic [captures some of the] evolutionary tale of web design...
Click once on the image, then click once more on "original" to view full size. It is VERY large! But then, there's a lot of time, and content, to cover.
I liked how this particular chart did not go hog-wild on data visualization effects.
Some landmark events included the following:
The very first website was published in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee.
Flash was introduced by Macromedia in 1996.
Dynamic design language PHP gained popularity with its PHP3 release in 1998.
In the year 2000, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 became the first web browser to achieve better than 99% support for CSS1.
In 2000, the W3C recommended the second release of JavaScript, and by 2002, nearly all browsers supported it.
In 2008, mobile access to the internet exceeded desktop access for the first time in history.
Today, two thirds of cell phone users say they access the web/email from their device.
About The Author: Sean Work @seanvwork is the marketing coordinator at KISSmetrics.