The History of the World Wide Web (Panel 1-C)

1. The Web and 9/11/2001
2. The Web Browser Wars
3. Dot-Com Boom and Bust (Jerz)
4. Hypertext before the WWW (Jerz)

History of Hypertext

An ungraded, in-class activity.
What year did each of the following take place?

• first e-mail message sent


• CD (compact disc)


• IBM founded


• first computer with a disk drive


• First commercial computer game


• internet created


• Microsoft Windows


• working compute hypertext system demonstrated


• Apple Computer Co. founded


• word "hypertext" coined


• first computer sold with a keyboard and monitor


• First graphical web browser created


• mouse (pointing device)


• HyperCard (hypertext system for home computers)


• World Wide Web created

Define: hypertext

Define: World Wide Web

Define: The Internet

Describe your first experience using a word processor.

Describe your first experience viewing a web page.

(I will update this page with a summary of your answers.)