In week 10 we looked at Internet history.

First of all we looked back to the first website ever created on the internet which was this html document launched on w3 which was simply just instructions on how to use it and it still works to date. It is also responsive to any type of screen despite being created in 1991. This shows that technology will always technically be the same, it’s just evolving.

Then we talked about Jeffrey Zeldman who is an American entrepreneur, web designer, author, podcaster and speaker on web design. He is the co-founder of A List Apart Magazine and the Web Standards Project.

Jeffrey made the first ever website for a movie which was for Batman Forever in 1995.

When standards were introduced, browser makers were encouraged to adhere to a standardised way of doing things - resulting in cross-compatibility becoming easier for content makers and there no longer being the need to build multiple versions of the same website.

1. Keeping the web free and accessible to all
2. Help make source code simpler, reducing development and maintenance time
3. Making the web a more accessible place
4. Allowing for backwards compatibility and validation

We looked at very early social media in 1994. GeoCities was a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites for free and to browse user-created websites by their theme or interest. GeoCities was started in November 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, and was named Beverly Hills Internet briefly before being renamed GeoCities.

Then Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, YouTube by Steve Chen in 2005.