A Brief History of Web Design
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Chronicle of concrete milestones not slogans: CSS ships in 1996 but gains real use decades later, authors invent the box model hack and rely on floats for layout until layout modules arrive, the first banner ad gets an 80% click-through, Yahoo and GeoCities lose chunks of history, Chrome and Android launch in 2008 and the iPhone in 2007 flips mobile, experimental sites like CSS Zen Garden prove standards work, Internet Explorer reaches ~90% share for years, and the web grows past a billion sites and ~3 billion users.
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- 0:00A BRIEF HISTORY OF WEB DESIGN DAVE SHEA / DÜSSELDORF / MAY 2015
- 0:56COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
- 1:13SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
- 1:33EXOPLANETS? ZERO
- 1:49NIRVANA'S NEVERMIND
- 2:04DR SEUSS
- 2:37Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- 2:53Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things.
- 3:26PREDICTION
- 5:19LEARN FROM OUR PAST
- 5:581991 – 2000 The Wild West
- 7:03MILESTONES
- 7:461994 W3C formed
- 8:031995 Netscape IPO
- 8:241997 Browser Wars in Full Swing
- 9:231998 Web Standards Project
- 10:541999 IE Overtakes Netscape
- 17:20THE WEB ISN'T PRINT
- 21:08MAYBE WE NEEDED THAT
- 22:002001 - 2006 The Quiet Years
- 23:03BLOGGING
- 24:332002 CSS Hacks
- 26:072003 CSS Zen Garden
- 27:222004 Firefox 1.0
- 28:012005 Adobe Buys Macromedia
- 35:24WEB STANDARDS? No Thank You
- 36:22COMMUNITY
- 41:23JAVASCRIPT++
- 42:03INDEPENDENT COMPANIES
- 42:50VS. YAHOO
- 43:262007 – PRESENT The Multi-Device Web
- 45:232008 Flurry of Activity
- 46:212010 Responsive Web Design
- 47:43CONSTANT CHANGE
- 48:00CONTINUOUS GROWTH
- 49:49THE WEB IS RESILIENT
- 50:292015 The Web Today
- 50:42WHERE NEXT?
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