The Hampster Dance website in 1999 in Netscape Navigator 4.04
This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998.
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Macromedia Dreamweaver 2.0 banner in 1999
and an exhibition of web banners in the 1990s
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Thefacebook Announcement page in 2004
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Thefacebook About page in 2004
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On February 4, 2004, Thefacebook was launched
Facebook homepage evolution
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Half-Life 2 website in 2004
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Dancing Baby, also known as "Baby Cha-Cha" or Oogachack Baby was one of the first viral internet memes back in 1996.
The 3D-rendered baby was dancing to the intro of “Hooked on a Feeling” by the Swedish band Blue Swede.
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Happy 12th Birthday preprocessor Stylus!
On January 31, 2011, TJ Holowaychuk created a dynamic styling language for cascading styles, Stylus 0.0.1.
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The nostalgia of 1990s websites
– McDonald's in 1996
– Burger King in 1997
– Pizza Hut in 1996
– KFC in 1999
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FrontPage was originally developed by Vermeer Technologies, which released its first version in November 1995. In January 1996, Vermeer was bought by Microsoft and in June 1996 it released a modified version of the editor called FrontPage 1.1
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Happy 23rd Birthday XHTML 1.0!
On January 26, 2000, W3C issued official recommendations for the XHTML 1.0 specification.
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Allaire Homesite 2.5a web editor in 1997
HomeSite was an HTML editor originally developed by Nick Bradbury. In March 1997 Allaire Corporation acquired HomeSite and Nick Bradbury joined Allaire.
In 2001 Allaire was acquired by Macromedia.
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The predecessor of Macromedia Flash –
FutureSplash Animator
The program was developed in the mid-90s by FutureWave Software.
In December 1996, FutureWave Software was purchased by Macromedia.
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Websites created by 2Advanced Studios in 2002
– Higher Source
– RealityBid
– Ultimatte Corporation
– XS Engineering
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HotDog 1.0 Web Editor in 1995
HotDog was one of the oldest HTML editors and was developed by Sausage Software in the mid-1990s.
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Happy 25th Birthday A List Apart webzine!
On January 22, 1998, Jeffrey Zeldman and Brian Platz began publishing the mailing list called A List Apart, which provided readers with regular news from the world of web design.
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Harry Potter's official websites
– Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in 2002
– Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in 2004
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The popular HTML editors in the 1990s
– Microsoft FrontPage 1.1 in 1996
– Microsoft FrontPage 98 in 1997
– Adobe PageMill 3.0 in 1998
– Macromedia Dreamweaver 1.2 in 1998
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20 years of evolution of web design trends.
Craigslist website in 2000
vs.
Craigslist website in 2023
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Happy 22nd Birthday Wikipedia!
On January 15, 2001, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded Wikipedia, a multilingual internet encyclopedia.
Have a look at the oldest archived version in Internet Archive.
web.archive.org/web/2001030217
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Happy 17th Birthday jQuery!
On January 14, 2006, software engineer John Resig announced the creation of the jQuery JavaScript library at BarCamp NYC.
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Happy 26th Birthday HTML 3.2!
On January 14, 1997, W3C issued a final recommendation specifying the HTML 3.2 markup language.
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Early versions of the websites of big technology companies in 1994
– Hewlett Packard
– IBM
– Microsoft
– Sun Microsystems
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