This timeline shows the most important events in the history of web development and the programming languages used.
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) was invented by Tim Berners-Lee and forms the basis of the World Wide Web.
JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich and is the most important language for interactive websites.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) was published to design the presentation and layout of websites.
PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) became popular as a server-side scripting language for web development.
jQuery, a JavaScript library, was published to simplify the writing of JavaScript.
HTML5 was released and brought numerous new functions and APIs for modern web applications.
Node.js made it possible to execute JavaScript on the server, which revolutionized web development.
React, a JavaScript library for building user interfaces, was released by Facebook.