1. A Short History of the World Wide Web

2. This short version of the evolution of the World Wide Web states some of the most important and meaningful events that have made the web what it is today: A Platform Used by 2,802,478,934 People Worldwide!

3. Growth and Regulations
Summary
Interactive Websites appeared marking the beginning of Web 2.0
SEO appeared, looking to optimise information within search engines
Browsers started competing for market share
Web is now used by everyone: young, old and even royalties
Web 2.0 Era
The internet opened for commerce and public use
W3C established internet regulations for all
Popular websites started shaping the Web 1.0
More Browsers Appeared
Search Engines were born to organise information
Growth and Regulations
First Browser was written
First hyperlink was created
Involved only scientists, CERN and some businesses
Creation of Internet

4. Why Talking About The WWW
Because the World Wide Web achieved tremendous success since its creation . It is also a good way to celebrate its 25th anniversary!

5. What Made the Internet Possible?
The ability to connect individual documents on the web through browsers and hyperlinks.

7. On the left is our timeline starting in 1989.

8. The World Wide Web
1989
Tim Berners-Lee wrote the World Wide Web (later renamed to Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) making the first connection between web documents. This was established over what is today known as the Internet
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9. First Browser
1989
The first Web Browser, called “WorldWideWeb”, used a ‘hyperlink’ through which by people could ‘navigate’ from one document to another.
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10. The Hypertext
1989
Instead of many individual documents, the web was now able to make connections. The WorldWideWeb (W3) allowed a wide-area hypermedia information offering access to a large universe of information.
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11. Websites Started to Connect
Document 1
Document 2
Website

12. The Browser This is what the browser used to look like 1989 References
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13. Web 1.0 Began to Develop
From now, information become more interconnected, websites started growing in popularity, the web opened to business and the public.
1999
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Web 1.0 The term was coined in 1999 by Darcy Di Nucci and was popularized by Tim O'Reilly at the O'Reilly Media

14. Who Was The Web For Scientists, CERN Businesses
Created online documents /websites
Businesses
Opened Websites/ Public Page
Government
Started having public information published on the web
Users owing a desktop

15. The Web Opened for Commerce
1989
The first commercial dialup ISP (internet service provider) in the United States was The World, which is still active today. On the right is what The World used to look like in 1989
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16. Marketing Adopts Digital Trends
The first company to adopt digital marketing strategy was Apple in The term ‘Digital Marketing' appeared later, around 1990s, to describe the engagement with stakeholders through the use of electronic devices.
1990
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Mashable
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17. The Web Becomes Public
April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web technology would be available for anyone to use on a royalty-free basis. This is how the public web used to look like then.
1993
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18. First Public Web Browser
Mosaic was the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web and this is how it used to look like then...
1993
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19. The Web Consortium
To regulate the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium. W3C gives technical support and guidelines that aims to maximise consensus about the web content and to ensure high standards.
1994
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20. Yahoo was Launched
Yahoo! Inc., one of the most important multinational Internet corporations, was launched by Jerry Yang and David Filo in Sunnyvale, California. This is what Yahoo! Used to look back then…
1994
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This is what Yahoo’s interface used to look like back in 2006

21. Amazon was Launched
Amazon, one of the most important electronic commerce websites was founded by Jeff Bezos, where everyone could sell products. Today Amazon is the largest Internet based companies in the US, and this is what it used to look like in 1994…
1994
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This is what Amazon’s interface used to look like back in 1994

22. Netscape Release Netscape Today Netscape in 1995
Netscape, once dominant browser, was founded in In the firs web browser war Netscape lost to Internet Explorer
Netscape Today
Netscape in 1995
1995
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23. More Browsers Were Born
Opera and Internet Explorer, other popular web browsers, were first released in 1995.
That’s what was their interface back then…
1995
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24. 1996 Google Came to Be
Google, the most popular search engine in the West, began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. Google looked quite different in 1996…
1996
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This is what Google’s interface used to look like back in 1996

25. Baidu was Launched
Baidu, the most popular search engine in Asia, was founded on 18th of January 2000, by Robin Li. This it is what the Chinese web services company looked like in 2000.
2000

26. Web 2.0 Started Developing
This meant that the web become from broadcasting platform a two way interaction media through use of blogs, applications and social media channels.
1999
References
Web 1.0 The term was coined in 1999 by Darcy Di Nucci and was popularized by Tim O'Reilly at the O'Reilly Media

27. Web 2.0 Made of Relationships
Businesses
Web Users
Public Bodies

28. Web 1.o vs. Web 2.0 Web Platform Web User Web User Organisations
Documents
Websites
Web User
Web Platform
Web User

29. Web 1.0 Web 2.0 References O'Reilly Media DoubleClick Google AdSense
Ofoto
Flickr
Akamai
BitTorrent
mp3.com
Napster
Britannica Online
Wikipedia
personal websites
blogging
evite
upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation
search engine optimization
page views
cost per click
screen scraping
web services
publishing
participation
content management systems
wikis
directories (taxonomy)
tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness
syndication
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O'Reilly Media

30. Web Was on Mobile…
Ericsson R380 was a GSM (Global System for Mobile) mobile phone made by Ericsson Mobile Communications It was the first device marketed as a "smartphone"
2000

31. Wikipedia was Launched
One of the first websites that allowed people to have a more interactive relationship with the Web. The free-access/free content Internet encyclopaedia is supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. This is how the website’s logo changed over the years…
2001
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32. Myspace was launched
One of the first social media platforms and one of the main contributors to the evolution of the Web was Myspace. The social network service, with strong music emphasis was founded by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe. It looked like that… Today it’s owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake
2003
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This is what MySpace’s interface used to look like back in 2003

33. Safari was Launched
Safari, Apple’s browser, was Launched in 2003 by Steve Jobs. Competition between browsers increased, giving users improved experience, service and offering more choices.
2003
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34. Word Press was Founded
One of the first and most important CMS (content management systems) based on PHP and MySQL was founded in 2003 and it looked like this… The free and open source blogging tool, which also characterised the Web 2.0, is today used by over 409 million people each month!
2003
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35. Digital Jobs Were Created
New jobs were created through the use of internet to satisfy commercial or private demand on the market. Many marketing agencies were founded and offered a combination of services for the Web growth.
2003
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36. Firefox was Released
Firefox, one of the most popular and used browsers today, was launched in 2004 looking like this… The browser has over 7% market share today.
2004
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37. Browsers Market Share Today
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38. (the) Facebook was Founded
Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes created the largest today social media network at the Harvard University .
It was named the Facebook and it looked like this
2004
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This is what Facebook’s interface used to look like back in 2004

39. Responsive Design
Since Web was now accessed through various platforms, there was a need to adapt the website technology accordingly.
In 2004 Responsive Design was born, written by Cameron Adams to adapt a site's layout to a device's display
2004
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40. WST Was Launched
To further support the growing digital phenomena, Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues started the Web Science Trust (WST)
2005
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webscience.me

41. You Tube Was Founded
The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and has been owned by Google since late 2006.
2005
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History of You Tube’s Layout

42. SEO Became a Web Practice
SEO started emerging as a practice of optimising information for search engines. Dr. Clinton Cimring, is credited by Google as being the person who invented the idea of SEO 2.0 and was the first person to launch the approach under SEO Treo in 2006.
2006
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43. Twitter was Founded
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets“ This is what twitter used to look like back then
2006
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This is what Twitter’s interface used to look like back in 2006

44. Mobile Access to the Web
iPhone began to change the web one more time and everything began to shift to cater to the mobile user.
2007
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45. The Web had 1 trillion public pages!
Web Publications
The Web had 1 trillion public pages!
2008

46. The Web Compared to Other Media
This is how other media reached
50 million users compared to the Web:
Radio took 38 years
Television took 13 years
Web took 4 years
Facebook took just 10 months
2013
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47. Current Internet Users In the World
Today, the web has over 3,000,000,000 users worldwide!
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2014

48. Live Updates on the Web
The Web today is first source of information for the media. BBC incorporates Twitter for Live Updates
2014

49. Information Flow On The Internet
Organisation's websites
Government/ Educational Websites
Blogs
Social Media Posts
Business Websites

50. Everyone Use the Web!

51. Oct. 24, 2014 Queen Elizabeth II Sent Her First Tweet

52. Web Stats Right Now:
2014