Fun with 5 decades of WebDev - Where do u fit in on this timeline?
Published: 2022-10-28 12:00:30




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I am writing this because over decades it is now all a blur. It’s hard to believe that 5 decades went by. What paths did we go down and where are we now? To find out I am retracing my own steps because during these decades I lost track of things. I had this-love hate relationship with programming. Had some fun putting my timeline in.
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If nothing else let’s take pride in our participation in this rich WebDev history
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   <td><strong>Rick’s Web Journey</strong>
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   <td>1971 was playing around with telnet in high school science lab
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   <td>1974 took Fortran course in College and hated it
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   <td>1975 Bill Gates starts Microsoft
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   <td>I am 1 year older than Bill Gates 
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   <td>1976 graduated from Georgetown University
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   <td>1977 worked on an IBM System/32 in the workplace and hated it
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   <td>1979 Compuserve dial up service launched - original online portal for the general public with news, weather, chats and email
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   <td>1981 MS-DOS released = a rebranded IBM DOS
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   <td>1983 used 8” floppy drive on payroll program
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   <td>1984 Apple Macintosh 128k introduced with a mouse to click on icons that were not called windows at that time but it is said that apple used windows before microsoft
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   <td>1984 got my first PC, a Commodore 64, used Prowrite to write my book, had a wide body printer
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   <td>1985 windows1 launched
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   <td>1988 I learned Lotus 123 and Lotus Macros at work on a IBM 386 with a 40 meg hard drive
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   <td>1989 AOL launches, you’ve got mail
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   <td>1989 absconded with floppy disk containing 123 when fired from first IT job. Decided I wanted to do database management
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   <td>1989 Tim Berners-Lee introduces http protocol (on windows 3 at the time)
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   <td>1990 Berners-Lee coined worldwideweb  , created first web server and graphical browser
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   <td>1991 got my first Packard Bell laptop at Sears and deleted windows 3.1 in favor of DOS
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   Did not like using a mouse and thought 40 meg hard drive was all I would ever need
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   Note there was no touch pad in those days on laptops, had to plug in a mouse or navigate windows 3.1 manually with up, down and alt keys
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   <td>1993 Mosaic Web Browser created, gives way to Netscape soon after
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   <td>1994 Netscape introduces ssl / https
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   <td>1995 first version of Internet Explorer
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1995 javascript started for netscape2
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1995 Java programming language started
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1995 MySQL created in Sweden
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   <td>1996 first mobile phone with internet connectivity - The Nokia 9000 Communicator
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   <td>1997 Sun Micro sues Microsoft over claims by MS saying systems were Java compatible
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   <td>created my first website, played around with java applets in iex4
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   <td>1997 Apache Derby originated at cloudscape….first document dbase i think
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      Derby's database engine, is a full-functioned relational embedded database-engine, supporting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDBC">JDBC</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL">SQL</a> as programming APIs. It uses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Db2">IBM Db2</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL">SQL</a> syntax.
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   <td>1998 Mozilla project at Netscape
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   <td>1998 java servlet spec came out using request / response objects…the java sql package…Java is now 3 years old
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   <td>I had some java tutoring
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   <td>1998 iex 5, introduction of <code>XMLHttpRequest in Javascript</code>
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   <td>1998 Sergey Brin and Larry Page co-found Google
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   <td>2000 Microsoft excludes Java Virtual Machine from Windows XP
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2000 - sqlite released
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   <td>Took my first Oracle course
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   <td>2002 mozilla starts firefox browser
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2002 Microsoft pays Sun Micro $20 million to settle lawsuit
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   <td>2005 Hadoop created - used Hbase in oct 2007, precursor to nosql
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   <td>2006 JQuery with Ajax debuts in august , allows for update of div component without having to repaint the whole page
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   <td>2007 - 2014 took 7 years off because i got a real job
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    When i came back everything was different..practically everything was Javascript now
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   <td>2009 node js introduced in may of 2009
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2009 birth of nosql    
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   <td>2010 Oracle buys Sun Micro Systems - java
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   <td>2015 Plain js fetch = generic http client now
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   <td>2016 - Angular came before React
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