“Changing
Life”
It is said that the first web site published in the World
Wide Web history is sometime in August of 1981. That was some 30 years ago, but
the Internet was born in the sixties. It wasn’t as fast as it is today, but it was
very efficient in transferring information from one computer to another.
Because of its reliability, the internet was used by the military, scientists,
educators, doctors and the government for efficient transfer of information
within the group. Back then the internet required a computer, a modem and
a telephone line.
In the 1990s Mosaic was
introduced to the public, which was a free browser program. Mosaic was the
first commercial browser that allowed the public access to online content. It
was designed by Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina, and originally ran on the Unix
system. By 1994 the Mosaic web browser became available to other OS such as
Mac, Windows and Amiga OS.
During the 90s, internet
connected the world through telephone lines. Documents were viewed in HTML, where
everyone can view and access it if they are online. These sites are referred to
as first generation sites, they had lots of text, limited colors and graphics
with linear layout. It was created for functional communication, and not to entertain
users. Since dial-up modems are relatively slow it was impractical to bombard
users with lots of graphics–loading would take forever.
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