History of web dev

It's crazy how web development has changed from past 35 years. In every 10yrs, multiple changes happened and many things became obsolete so fast. I was having this talk with a friend last week and I thought why not start with this as my first blog post. After a reaaally long procrastination. Here is my brief rundown on how web development has changed over the time. Foundation Era (1990 - 1995) Birth of WWW Picture this: It’s 1990. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau are cooking up something in the CERN labs that would change the world forever. the World Wide Web. By the end of the year, they had built: The first web browser HTML to structure pages HTTP to transfer those pages The first web server, hosted on a NeXT computer with a handwritten label screaming:

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History of web dev

It's crazy how web development has changed from past 35 years. In every 10yrs, multiple changes happened and many things became obsolete so fast.

I was having this talk with a friend last week and I thought why not start with this as my first blog post.

After a reaaally long procrastination. Here is my brief rundown on how web development has changed over the time.

Foundation Era (1990 - 1995) Birth of WWW

Tim Berners Lee

Picture this: It’s 1990. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau are cooking up something in the CERN labs that would change the world forever. the World Wide Web.
By the end of the year, they had built:

  • The first web browser
  • HTML to structure pages
  • HTTP to transfer those pages
  • The first web server, hosted on a NeXT computer with a handwritten label screaming: