Happy 25th Birthday Wayback Machine!
On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine.
The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.
On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine.
The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of Apple introducing the first-generation iPod. To celebrate, Apple has hidden a fully functional iPod emulator on its Apple Music “Page Not Found” page.
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On October 21, 2010, Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7, a mobile phone whose user interface was created using flat design.
The new visual style received positive feedback, and Microsoft used flat design elements in the design of the Windows 8 graphics interface.
The new visual style received positive feedback, and Microsoft used flat design elements in the design of the Windows 8 graphics interface.
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In October 1998 Todd Fahrner began working on the Box Acid Test (Acid1) project, which tested if web browsers supported the CSS language. The test itself is a simple web page that contains several HTML elements modified by CSS.
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On October 18, 2006, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7.0.
IE7 was the default browser in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Embedded POSReady 2009.
IE7 was the default browser in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Embedded POSReady 2009.
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In October 1998 two Danish web designers, Michael Schmidt and Toke Nygaard, launched a community website for designers, called Kaliber10000 (K10k).
Kaliber10000 (K10k) website in 2003
Kaliber10000 (K10k) website in 2003
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On October 13, 1994, The Mosaic Communications Corporation launched, under the name Mosaic Netscape 0.9, the first one in a series of browsers, called Netscape Navigator.
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On October 13, 2000, Steve Krug, a UX designer and information architect, published Don’t Make Me Think. The book deals with web usability and the interdisciplinary field of HCI.
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Happy 32nd Birthday The first proposal of Cascading HTML Style Sheets!
On October 10, 1994, the Norwegian programmer Håkon Wium Lie published the first proposal of Cascading HTML style sheets.
On October 10, 1994, the Norwegian programmer Håkon Wium Lie published the first proposal of Cascading HTML style sheets.
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In October 1997, the term Dynamic HTML (DHTML) was first introduced in connection with the release of Internet Explorer 4.0.
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In October 2000 Hi-ReS!, a London-based digital agency, designed a website for Darren Aronofsky’s film, Requiem for a Dream.
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On October 7, 1996, Microsoft released the Microsoft FrontPage 97 WYSIWYG website editor. The program included new features such as import Web Wizard, the ability to edit raw HTML source code, and more.
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On October 6, 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger published an Instagram app for sharing photos and short videos in the App Store.
Instagram 1.0 for iPhone in 2010
Instagram 1.0 for iPhone in 2010
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On October 4, 1997, The Netscape Communications Corporation released the web browser Netscape Navigator 3.04 Gold. This version featured also a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
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Official avatar of Mark Zuckerberg in Meta's virtual reality Horizon Worlds, posted by Zuckerberg himself in August 2022.
Sometimes things just don't quite go as planned...
Sometimes things just don't quite go as planned...
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Happy 32nd birthday W3C .org!
On October 1, 1994, Tim Berners-Lee founded an international organization called World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
On October 1, 1994, Tim Berners-Lee founded an international organization called World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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On September 30, 1997, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 4.0 for Windows. On January 6, 1998, was launched a version for Mac OS and on March 4, 1998, was launched a version for Unix.
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Y2K web design in the 2000s
– Sony in 2002
– Jamiroquai in 2003
– Microsoft Games in 2002
– Swift 3D in 2002
– Sony in 2002
– Jamiroquai in 2003
– Microsoft Games in 2002
– Swift 3D in 2002
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On September 27, 2016, the Figma web application for collaborative interface design was released.
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On September 23, 2009, a prestigious gallery of highly creative and innovative CSS-based websites in terms of design was launched under the name CSS Awards.
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