event-line A Short History of the Web
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[The Early Web]
  1991 WorldWideWeb  t: Protocol
    Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first website at **CERN**.
  1993 Mosaic  t: Browser
    The first popular *graphical* browser.

[The Standards Era] collapsed
  1995 JavaScript  t: Platform
    Brendan Eich writes the language in ten days.
  1996 CSS  t: Standard
    Styling splits from structure.

[The App Era]
  2005 Ajax  t: Platform
    `XMLHttpRequest` updates pages without a reload.
  2014 HTML5  t: Standard
    The living standard — video, canvas, semantics.