A Brief History of Browsers and Web Design

Early Browsers (1991)

• The first published web site (1991)
• Web browsers pre-Netscape

BBEdit released (1992)

MOSAIC (1993)

Netscape Navigator (1994)

Internet Explorer (1995)

Creating Killer Web Sites and Early CSS (1996)

• The way back machine

Macromedia Flash (2000)

• Macromedia, Flash, and the Flash aesthetic

Internet Explorer 6.0 Bundled with Windows XP (2001)

WaSP (1998)

CSS Zen Garden (2003)

Designing with Web Standards (Zeldman, 2003) and the continued fight for web standards

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 (2004)

• Browser Usage and Rendering Engines
• Snapshots of web sites and a little design history (as of 2009)

Web 2.0 (2004)

AJAX and Web Applications (2005)

iPhone (2007)

Google Chrome released (2008)

The End of Flash (2010)

Responsive Web Design (2010)

• Mobile has changed the landscape