Dwight Eisenhower — American politician and Army general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.
Sputnik — the first artificial satellite launched into space.
ARPA — (Advanced Research Project Agency) later DARPA (defense).
“The Internet as we know it really got started in the early 1960s. That was when J.C.R. Licklider — a computer scientist with technology company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) — formulated a few unique ideas about global networking in a series of memos, describing an “Intergalactic Computer Network.” His idea: link computers together across the globe; and anybody near a computer could share information. As it turns out, Licklider had the right idea at the right time. The Cold War had the United States searching for a communication network that could survive a nuclear attack.”
Tim Berners-Lee developed the first HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) in 1989.
(Published text has always been marked up so that the author and publisher would be able to synchronize and layout a publication the way it has been envisioned. TBL created a markup language that tells a web browser how to visually display a page the way the “author” envisioned it.)
Marc Andreessen added an image tag to HTML and founded Netscape — 1993.
During the 90’s there were browser wars and HTML was becoming fragmented. TBL created The World Wide Web Consortium to maintain HTML standards.
Versions
- HTML 3.2 — 1997
- HTML 4.01 — 1999
- XHTML — 2000
- HTML5 — 2014
HTML5
Released in 2014. We are currently in version HTML5, and many people don't see a sixth one coming any time soon, if ever.