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Archive of the History of the Web

This archive organizes the Web's amazing history from the very first website ever made by Tim Berners-Lee, through the introduction of JavaScript and CSS, the browser wars, and everything inbetween. It is a work in progress. Contributions are welcome

Reflections

The languages which almost were CSS

Old Articles

2008

Apr 2008 Popularity

The story about how JavaScript was started, as told by Brendan Eich

2005

May 9th 2005 The assault on software giant Microsoft

"Microsoft's biggest worry, though, should be the huge success of Mozilla Firefox, the open source web browser."

Feb 18th 2015 Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

Jesse James Garrett coins the term "AJAX"

Misc

• Mozilla Museum
• Mozilla ECMAScript Email Discussions / Archives
• IE 4 Release Party: An attempt to haze Netscape backfires