A timeline of websites as research for an ancillary music task product.

1. Ancillary Product:
Website Timeline
Morgan Redman

2. Bibliography
• http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/03/11/world-wide-web-
timeline/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website#History

3. 1989
• The world wide web begins construction as a project of
the CERN organisation.
• The project was given the names:
• “Enquire”
• “The Information Mesh”
• “The Mine of Information”

4. 1990
• The world wide web, the first web browser, (shortened to
the initialism w.w.w.) was created in 1990 by the
British physicist Tim Berners-Lee.
• “Archie” the first tool designed for searching the
internet was invented by the McGill University student
Alan Emtage.

5. 1992
• Tim Berners-Lee posts the first photograph on the world
wide web. This starts the process for interactivity and
dynamic websites in the future.
• The line-mode world wide web browser launches.

6. 1993
• The world wide web was made free to use for the public.
• The files on the internet were available to download and
were very plain and simple with basic navigation.
• The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA) releases “Mosaic 1.0” which was the first
publically popular web browser.

7. 1994
• 11 millions households are able to have easy access to
the internet.
• One of the first ever known web purchases was made; the
purchase was a pizza from Pizza Hut.
• Yahoo! is created by Stanford University.
• Microsoft releases Windows 95.
• First ever version of Internet Explorer released.
• Amazon opens up.

8. 1996
• Nokia releases the Nokia 9000 Communicator which is the
first phone with internet capabilities.
• Hotmail launches as one of the first webmail services.
Its name gave rise to the HTML internet language used to
build webpages.

9. 1997
• Google.com registers as a domain.

10. 1999
• MP3 downloading service Napster launches.
• Many places shut the site down before it is fully shut
down for allowing the illegal sharing of files.

11. 2003
• Apple launches iTunes music store with 200,000 songs
available.
• Networking site LinkedIn launches.
• Wordpress blog publishing system created.

12. 2005
• YouTube is founded on Valentines day.

13. 2006
• Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion.
• Twitter is launched and Jack Dowsey sends the first
tweet.

14. 2008
• Google releases the Chrome Web browser.

15. 2009
• Microsoft releases the search engine Bing.

16. 2010
• Pinterest and Instagram launch.

17. Static Website
• A web page that is received exactly as it is produced.
• The page is unchanging and displays the same content to
all users.
• Images are commonly used for aesthetics.
• Audio and video can be used if they play automatically
and are non-interactive.
• Quick to develop, cheap to develop and cheap to control.
• Requires an expert in web development to update the
site, content remains unchanging.

18. Dynamic/ Interactive
Website
• Perceived differently than when produced.
• Uses hypertext navigation.
• Changing situations can be conveyed.
• Interactive using HTML, storing and browser cookies.
• Allows for search bar key word searching.