Notes/Web Engineering/Introduction.md

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practical

World Wide Web

• Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
• Hyperlinks
• Internet

Hypertext

• See HTTP

Brief history

• First web server 1990
• First browser 1990
• First NSCA Mosaic browser in 1993
• First company dedicated to browsers in 1994
• First WWW conference in 1994
• Netscape! in late 1994
• IE 1 1995

Browser wars

• First war
  • Netscape v. Microsoft
• Second war
  • Google v. everybody else
    • Firefox was created by ex Netscape ppl