Web design history [final]

All of the documents written in HTML were stored on one main computer at CERN . This special type of computer was called a " Web server " (by the physicists at CERN ) because it "served-up" cross-linked HTML documents. There was only one Web server located at CERN, but by the end of 1992 there were over 50 Web servers in the world. Many of these earliest Web servers were located at universities or other research centers. These servers were using line-mode interfaces. By June 2000 there were more than 10 million public information servers, 20 million in November 2001 and 30 million in November 2003. We now find more than 60 million Web sites on the Internet, as the March 2005 survey received http responses from 60,442,655 sites.  

In 1993 Marc Andreesen was an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne working on a project for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) when he led a team that developed the graphic interface browser called Mosaic . The first pre-Beta version of Mosaic was released in February 1993. Version 1.0 of Mosaic was released in September 1993 for the Windows, Macintosh and the X Windows System platforms. Popularity of the graphical user interface (GUI) browser was immediate. People without computer expertise were able to use the graphical interface and just point and click to navigate the World Wide Web. The WWW grew quickly. Marc Andreesen left NCSA in March 1994. He and Jim Clark formed a company later known as Netscape Communication Corporation.

In 1994, the W3C Consortium was established to set goals and standards for the future development of the Web language, html. The various levels of html code from that time followed through HTML 2, 3 and now 4.01. Since HTML ver 1, the W3C, Microsoft and Netscape Corporations have worked towards achieving a greater ability to provide dynamic content over the Web. Microsoft and the Netscape Corporations have been in fierce competition to acquire the dominate market share of their browser products and their Web technology. This competition has fueled the rate of progress in the development of the Web technologies.