An Overview of Web Development and Design

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An Overview of Web Development and Design

According to World Wide Web pioneer Timothy Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web's initial purpose was to provide "an interactive world of shared information through which people could communicate with each other and with machines" (1996: p 1). Originally developed at the European Center of Nuclear Energy (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, the Web emerged in 1989 as a way for Dr. Berners-Lee and some of his distant associates to work on particle physics projects. He designed a method of links that was usable by all computers and hypertext was the language; we know it as http. With its knowledge-sharing capabilities, the invention of the Web quickly spread to universities and science research communities all over the world. Since it was primarily used for text, actual web design in these early days was not particularly significant. Around this same time, researchers at the National Center for Super Computing Applications at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana also worked and researched web technology. In 1992, only 26 hosts were serving web sites.

The real boom in Web and Internet use began in 1993 when Marc Andreessen developed the first graphical browser named Mosaic. Capable of displaying images and text, the graphical browser made multimedia possible. Coupled with http, access to the internet became easier and more attractive for the general public's use. In 1994, Andreessen developed his own company to distribute a newly developed version of the browser, Netscape Navigator/Communicator, commercially. It became an extremely successful browser and produced tremendous profits for the company.

Web architecture continued to evolve at this time and, as it did, Web Design start...

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