The Rise of the Web

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A historical overview of the web tracing key milestones: the birth of ARPANET and its first crashing “lo” message; Tim Berners‑Lee creating HTML, HTTP and a browser‑editor; Mosaic to Netscape’s rapid growth (65 million users) and Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer; Netscape open‑sourcing as Mozilla in 1998. It then covers server‑side evolution from CGI to Perl to PHP enabling dynamic sites, the emergence of Ajax (~2002) and jQuery (2005–06), and later performance and platform shifts with Google V8 and Chrome, plus Node.js and WebAssembly turning the browser into a general runtime.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 15:16Hypertext Markup Language
3. 17:59PHP
4. 28:28Ajax
5. 30:17Objective-C
6. 31:55JavaScript

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