History

The world wide web and website design

In 1989, while working at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee came up with the idea for the implementation of a global hypertext project, later to be named the World Wide Web. From 1991 to 1993, the World Wide Web was conceived. Text-only pages could be seen by using a browser in single-line mode.

In 1993, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, created the Mosaic website browser. At that time there were several browsers, but most of them are based on Unix and the text was obviously heavy. There had been no integrated approach to graphical design ideas like images or sounds. The Mosaic browser changed all that.

The consortium was created in October of 1994 for "bringing the Web to its full potential by creating common protocols that promote evolution and to ensure interoperability." This discouraged any business property from being monopolised by a browser and programming language, which would have changed the effect of the Internet as a whole. The W3C  continues to set the standards, which are seen today with JavaScript.

Andreessen Communications Corp. was formed in 1994 and would later be known as Netscape Communications, with v 0.9 of the Netscape browser. Netscape created their own HTML tags without taking into account the process of traditional norms.

In the period 1996 to 1999 the war of browsers started, such as Microsoft and Netscape fought for the primary domain browser of choice. During this time there were many new technologies in the field, notably Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript and dynamic HTML. So, the browser wars has resulted in a lot of positive additions and helped evolve website design at a quick speed.