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Lecture 1: History of the Web

Outline

In order to provide context to where we are now, I will present my work starting from 1995 until today.

1. WWW began 1991. Not same as Internet
2. Text-only browsers until Mosaic (1993)
3. Web vs Internet vs AOL vs Prodigy
4. Super-controlled image-based vs. semantic HTML
5. Server-side image maps, CGI and gifs
6. HTML 3 and tables and spacer gifs
7. Frames and the CD-ROM affect
8. Early Flash
9. Early CSS. Separating style and content.
10. Flash, actionscript and XML
11. Google, importance of proper syntax and search
12. “I need a website”: The 1-off portfolio era
13. Enter Javascript
14. Web 2.0/Web Apps
15. Open-source CMSes
16. Social and customizable
17. JQuery and other Javascript libraries
18. HTML5 and CSS3
19. Mobile and iPad real factors
20. WebType, Themes/CMSes (tumblr) that get adapted
21. Responsive Design (design for all platforms)
22. Plug-ins, sites as tools, libraries
23. HTML Output: Locally Made, HTML patterns

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