I am writing this because over decades it is now all a blur. It’s hard to believe that 5 decades went by. What paths did we go down and where are we now? To find out I am retracing my own steps because during these decades I lost track of things. I had this-love hate relationship with programming. Had some fun putting my timeline in.
If nothing else let’s take pride in our participation in this rich WebDev history
| Important WebDev Milestones | Rick’s Web Journey |
| 1971 was playing around with telnet in high school science lab | |
| 1974 took Fortran course in College and hated it | |
| 1975 Bill Gates starts Microsoft | I am 1 year older than Bill Gates |
| 1976 graduated from Georgetown University | |
| 1977 worked on an IBM System/32 in the workplace and hated it | |
| 1979 Compuserve dial up service launched - original online portal for the general public with news, weather, chats and email | |
| 1981 MS-DOS released = a rebranded IBM DOS | |
| 1983 used 8” floppy drive on payroll program | |
| 1984 Apple Macintosh 128k introduced with a mouse to click on icons that were not called windows at that time but it is said that apple used windows before microsoft | 1984 got my first PC, a Commodore 64, used Prowrite to write my book, had a wide body printer |
| 1985 windows1 launched | |
| 1988 I learned Lotus 123 and Lotus Macros at work on a IBM 386 with a 40 meg hard drive | |
| 1989 AOL launches, you’ve got mail | 1989 absconded with floppy disk containing 123 when fired from first IT job. Decided I wanted to do database management |
| 1989 Tim Berners-Lee introduces http protocol (on windows 3 at the time) | |
| 1990 Berners-Lee coined worldwideweb , created first web server and graphical browser | |
| 1991 got my first Packard Bell laptop at Sears and deleted windows 3.1 in favor of DOS
Did not like using a mouse and thought 40 meg hard drive was all I would ever need Note there was no touch pad in those days on laptops, had to plug in a mouse or navigate windows 3.1 manually with up, down and alt keys |
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| 1993 Mosaic Web Browser created, gives way to Netscape soon after | |
| 1994 Netscape introduces ssl / https | |
| 1995 first version of Internet Explorer
1995 javascript started for netscape2 1995 Java programming language started 1995 MySQL created in Sweden |
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| 1996 first mobile phone with internet connectivity - The Nokia 9000 Communicator | |
| 1997 Sun Micro sues Microsoft over claims by MS saying systems were Java compatible | created my first website, played around with java applets in iex4 |
| 1997 Apache Derby originated at cloudscape….first document dbase i think
Derby's database engine, is a full-functioned relational embedded database-engine, supporting JDBC and SQL as programming APIs. It uses IBM Db2 SQL syntax. |
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| 1998 Mozilla project at Netscape | |
| 1998 java servlet spec came out using request / response objects…the java sql package…Java is now 3 years old | I had some java tutoring |
1998 iex 5, introduction of XMLHttpRequest in Javascript
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| 1998 Sergey Brin and Larry Page co-found Google | |
| 2000 Microsoft excludes Java Virtual Machine from Windows XP
2000 - sqlite released |
Took my first Oracle course |
| 2002 mozilla starts firefox browser
2002 Microsoft pays Sun Micro $20 million to settle lawsuit |
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| 2005 Hadoop created - used Hbase in oct 2007, precursor to nosql | |
| 2006 JQuery with Ajax debuts in august , allows for update of div component without having to repaint the whole page | |
| 2007 - 2014 took 7 years off because i got a real job
When i came back everything was different..practically everything was Javascript now |
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| 2009 node js introduced in may of 2009
2009 birth of nosql |
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| 2010 Oracle buys Sun Micro Systems - java | |
| 2015 Plain js fetch = generic http client now | |
| 2016 - Angular came before React |
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