The Evolution of Web Design
Posted on Thursday, Dec 01, 2011 in "Infographics Web Web Design" by Dmitry
The Evolution of Web Design, an infographic by Sean Work from KISSmetrics.
Web design has come a long way within the past 20 years since the first website was published by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. In fact, there have been so many advances with technology within the past decade, it is obvious that web design would also continue to expand and change over the years.
Some quick facts and stats:
1. The very first website was published in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee.
2. Dynamic design language PHP gained popularity with its PHP3 release in 1998.
3. In the year 2000, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 became the first web browser to achieve better than 99% support for CSS1.
4. In 2000, the W3C recommended the second release of Javascript, and by 2002, nearly all browsers supported it.
5. In 2008, mobile access to the internet exceeded desktop access for the first time in history.
6. Today, two thirds of cell phone users say they access the web/email from their device.
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