timeline
title Evolution of the Web
section Web 1.0 — Static Web
1991 : Tim Berners-Lee releases HTML
: First website goes live at CERN
1993 : Mosaic browser launches
: Images in web pages
1995 : JavaScript invented at Netscape
: Amazon and eBay founded
1998 : Google search engine launches
: CSS becomes W3C standard
section Web 2.0 — Social Web
2003 : WordPress and MySpace launch
: Safari browser released
2004 : Facebook founded
: Gmail launches with AJAX
2005 : YouTube founded
: Ajax popularized by Google Maps
2007 : iPhone introduces mobile web
: AWS S3 and EC2 launch
2009 : Node.js enables server-side JS
: Bitcoin whitepaper published
section Web 3.0 — Semantic / Cloud
2010 : Instagram launches
: WebSockets standardized
2013 : React open-sourced by Facebook
: Docker container platform released
2015 : GraphQL open-sourced
: Progressive Web Apps concept
2017 : WebAssembly becomes standard
: Kubernetes 1.0 production-ready
section AI Era
2020 : GPT-3 API opens to developers
: Jamstack architecture mainstream
2022 : ChatGPT launches publicly
: Stable Diffusion open-sourced
2023 : LLMs integrated into every major IDE
: Edge computing goes mainstream
2024 : Multimodal AI in browsers
: AI-native app frameworks emerge