Software and platforms

Entries

1 of 18 planned entries are published. New entries are added in batches, and every one is checked against its sources before it goes live.

• NCSA Mosaic (coming soon): The 1993 browser that took the web mainstream
• Netscape Navigator (coming soon): The first commercial browser giant
• Internet Explorer (coming soon): Microsoft's browser, dominance and retirement
• Mozilla Firefox (coming soon): Netscape's open-source heir
• Google Chrome (coming soon): Chromium, V8 and today's share
• Apache HTTP Server (coming soon): The server that ran most of the early web
• Nginx (coming soon): The event-driven server built for heavy traffic
• MySQL (coming soon): The database of the LAMP stack, and MariaDB
• WordPress: From a 2003 blog fork to a large share of all sites
• Drupal (coming soon): The CMS for complex sites
• Joomla (coming soon): The Mambo fork and its place among CMSs
• Macromedia Dreamweaver (coming soon): The visual editor of the 1990s and 2000s
• Microsoft FrontPage (coming soon): WYSIWYG editing for the masses
• Adobe Flash (coming soon): Animation, intros and games until 2020
• GeoCities (coming soon): The free homepage community, 1994 to 2009
• jQuery (coming soon): The library that tamed browser differences
• React (coming soon): The component era
• Node.js (coming soon): JavaScript on the server

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