Web Development Journey

1978

🌐 February 16, 1978

First BBS Goes Online

CBBS (Computerized Bulletin Board System) created in Chicago during the Great Blizzard

1980

🌐 1980s

BBS Golden Age

Thousands of BBSs operating across the US

1984

🌐 1984

FidoNet Created

Allowing BBSs to network together

1988

🌐 August 1988

IRC - Internet Relay Chat

First multi-user chat rooms (channels) on the internet

1989

🌐 March 12, 1989

The Web is Proposed

Tim Berners-Lee proposes "Information Management" at CERN - Vision for a "web of information" using hypertext

1990

🌐 October 1990

Web Technologies Created

Tim Berners-Lee writes HTML, HTTP, and URL

🌐 December 25, 1990

First Web Server

First web server and browser operational on NeXT computer

1991

🌐 August 6, 1991

WWW Goes Public

World Wide Web made available on the public internet

🌐 1991

IRC During Gulf War

IRC usage skyrocketed as people sought live updates

1993

🌐 April 21, 1993

Mosaic 1.0 Released

First popular graphical web browser - First browser to display images inline with text

🌐 April 30, 1993

WWW Goes Royalty-Free

CERN announces World Wide Web protocols are royalty-free, sparking explosion of web growth

1994

🌐 December 1994

Netscape Navigator 1.0

Created by Marc Andreessen, quickly became dominant browser. 10,000 websites existed by end of year

1995

🌐 December 1995

JavaScript Released

Released by Netscape

🔹 June 1995

Graduated High School

🔹 1995

Started Dabbling in HTML

1996

🌐 December 17, 1996

CSS 1.0 Released

Officially released by W3C

1997

🔹 1997

First Webmaster Role

University of Minnesota Marching Band Flute Section website

1998

🌐 May 1998

CSS 2 Released

2000

🌐 August 24, 2000

Macromedia Flash 5

Introduced ActionScript 1.0

🔹 May 2000

Bachelor of Science

Chemical Engineering - University of Minnesota

🔹 Summer 2000

Unix System Administrator

C/C++ Certification - University of Minnesota

🔹 2000

Developer - PowerObjects

2001

🌐 August 24, 2001

Internet Explorer 6

Dominated market with ~90% share by 2004

2002

🌐 March 15, 2002

Flash MX 6.0

Added video support

2003

🌐 June 23, 2003

Safari 1.0

Officially released by Apple

2004

🌐 November 9, 2004

Firefox 1.0

Released by Mozilla

🔹 2004

Developer - ADV Document Systems

2005

🌐 February 18, 2005

AJAX Term Coined

Jesse James Garrett's article "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications"

🔹 2005

Webmaster - We Can Ride

🔹 2005

HotDocs Certification

LexisNexis HotDocs Independent Consultant

🔹 2005

Web Developer - Cavion Plus

2006

🌐 August 26, 2006

jQuery 1.0

First stable version released

🔹 2006

Web Producer / Front End Developer

Thomson FindLaw

2008

🌐 September 2008

Google Chrome

Released with V8 JavaScript engine

2009

🌐 November 8, 2009

Node.js

First demonstrated at JSConf EU

2010

🌐 January 2010

npm Released

Node Package Manager

2012

🌐 October 1, 2012

TypeScript

First released by Microsoft

2013

🌐 May 29, 2013

React Open-Sourced

By Facebook at JSConf US

2014

🌐 October 28, 2014

HTML5 Official

Released as W3C Recommendation

2015

🌐 June 2015

ES2015 (ES6)

Major JavaScript update with arrow functions, classes, modules, promises

2016

🔹 2016

Web Developer - Maje Media

2017

🌐 July 2017

Flash End-of-Life Announced

Adobe announces Flash Player end-of-life for December 31, 2020

🔹 2017

Web Developer - Epicosity

Current position

2020

🌐 December 31, 2020

Flash Player End of Life

Adobe Flash Player end of support

2022

🌐 March 29, 2022

React 18

Concurrent rendering, automatic batching, Suspense for SSR

🌐 June 15, 2022

Internet Explorer 11 Retired

Officially retired and end of support

2024

🌐 December 5, 2024

React 19

Actions, Server Components, improved forms