Introduction to web development

This timeline shows the most important events in the history of web development and the programming languages used.

1991 < /HTML >

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) was invented by Tim Berners-Lee and forms the basis of the World Wide Web.

1995 {JavaScript}

JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich and is the most important language for interactive websites.

1996 {CSS}

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) was published to design the presentation and layout of websites.

1998 <?php?>

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) became popular as a server-side scripting language for web development.

2003 {jQuery}

jQuery, a JavaScript library, was published to simplify the writing of JavaScript.

2008 < /HTML5 >

HTML5 was released and brought numerous new functions and APIs for modern web applications.

2010 {Node.js}

Node.js made it possible to execute JavaScript on the server, which revolutionized web development.

2013 {React.js}

React, a JavaScript library for building user interfaces, was released by Facebook.