History of the World (Wide Web)
Since I keep running into people with “web experience” that pre-dates the existence of the web, or similar such claims, I thought it would be handy to create a list of key dates for the History of the World Wide Web. It’s interesting to see how quickly things evolve and change on the Web.
- World Wide Web proposal written by Tim Berners-Lee – 3/12/1989
- First website tested – 12/20/1990
- Tim Berners-Lee reports about the project on the newsgroup alt.hypertext – 8/7/1991
- Mosaic web browser released (version 1.0) – 11/11/1993