The document provides a timeline of key events in the development of the world wide web and websites from 1989 to 2010. It begins with the creation of the world wide web as a CERN project in 1989. Major milestones include the invention of the first web browser in 1990, making the web free to use in 1993, the release of Mosaic which popularized web browsing in 1993, the first online purchase from Pizza Hut in 1994, the creation of Yahoo and release of Internet Explorer in 1994, the launch of Google.com in 1997, and the founding of YouTube and Twitter in 2005 and 2006. The document also provides brief definitions of static and dynamic/interactive websites.

1. Ancillary Product:
Website Timeline
Morgan Redman

2. Bibliography
• http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/03/11/world-wide-web-
timeline/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website#History

3. 1989
• The world wide web begins construction as a project of
the CERN organisation.
• The project was given the names:
• “Enquire”
• “The Information Mesh”
• “The Mine of Information”

4. 1990
• The world wide web, the first web browser, (shortened to
the initialism w.w.w.) was created in 1990 by the
British physicist Tim Berners-Lee.
• “Archie” the first tool designed for searching the
internet was invented by the McGill University student
Alan Emtage.

5. 1992
• Tim Berners-Lee posts the first photograph on the world
wide web. This starts the process for interactivity and
dynamic websites in the future.
• The line-mode world wide web browser launches.

6. 1993
• The world wide web was made free to use for the public.
• The files on the internet were available to download and
were very plain and simple with basic navigation.
• The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA) releases “Mosaic 1.0” which was the first
publically popular web browser.

7. 1994
• 11 millions households are able to have easy access to
the internet.
• One of the first ever known web purchases was made; the
purchase was a pizza from Pizza Hut.
• Yahoo! is created by Stanford University.
• Microsoft releases Windows 95.
• First ever version of Internet Explorer released.
• Amazon opens up.

8. 1996
• Nokia releases the Nokia 9000 Communicator which is the
first phone with internet capabilities.
• Hotmail launches as one of the first webmail services.
Its name gave rise to the HTML internet language used to
build webpages.

9. 1997
• Google.com registers as a domain.

10. 1999
• MP3 downloading service Napster launches.
• Many places shut the site down before it is fully shut
down for allowing the illegal sharing of files.

11. 2003
• Apple launches iTunes music store with 200,000 songs
available.
• Networking site LinkedIn launches.
• Wordpress blog publishing system created.

12. 2005
• YouTube is founded on Valentines day.

13. 2006
• Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion.
• Twitter is launched and Jack Dowsey sends the first
tweet.

14. 2008
• Google releases the Chrome Web browser.

15. 2009
• Microsoft releases the search engine Bing.

16. 2010
• Pinterest and Instagram launch.

17. Static Website
• A web page that is received exactly as it is produced.
• The page is unchanging and displays the same content to
all users.
• Images are commonly used for aesthetics.
• Audio and video can be used if they play automatically
and are non-interactive.
• Quick to develop, cheap to develop and cheap to control.
• Requires an expert in web development to update the
site, content remains unchanging.

18. Dynamic/ Interactive
Website
• Perceived differently than when produced.
• Uses hypertext navigation.
• Changing situations can be conveyed.
• Interactive using HTML, storing and browser cookies.
• Allows for search bar key word searching.