The Web: A Very Brief History - Glossary & SiteMap A

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508	Section 508 requires that individuals with disabilities, who are members of the public seeking information or services from a Federal agency, have access to and use of information and data that is comparable to that provided to the public who are not individuals with disabilities, unless an undue burden would be imposed on the agency
A List Apart	A very influenical web design and standards websit. Founded by Jeffrey Zeldman
America Online AOL	Multinational Mass Media Corporation Online Software that allows customers to access the Internet In 2000 it merged with Times Warner to become: Times Warner AO, but became a separate company again in 2009.
ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network	ARPANET was one of the first packet switching networks and the first network to implement TCP/IP.It was the precursor to the Internet ARPANET (1969) was a large network created by the United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA).The first two nodes that formed the ARPANET were UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute, followed shortly thereafter by the University of Utah.
Andreessen, Marc	Leader of the team that created the browser Mosaic. Partner with Jim Clark in Netscape Communications
Berners-Lee, Tim	Inventor of the World Wide Web Director of W3C, The World Wide Web Consortium
Bos, Bert	Bert Bos along wit Håkon Wium Lie, developed CSS1 which became a W3C Recommendation in 1996.
Çelik, Tantek	first implemented the innovative Doctype Switching while working on Internet Explorer 5 for Mac. He also created the first known reset for html and CSS
CERN Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire	European Organization for Nuclear Research, "physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter - the fundamental particles... Founded in 1954, the CERN laboratory sits astride the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva." CERN
Clark, Jim	Founder of Silicon Graphics Partner with Marc Andressen in Netscape Communications
Commerce & the Internet	Final restrictions on commerce were lifted in April, 1995
Chrome	Chrome is a browser by Google it was first released in 2008
CSS Cascading Style Sheets	The main purpose of CSS is to separate the styles from the structure of the page. This separation can improve content accessibilty and provides more control. In addition: Css allows multiply pages to share the same styles. Css allows for different types of styles (Media Types) and rendering methods. Css allows for different styles (Media Queries) depending upon the size or the device on which the page is viewed.
DOCTYPE	The DOCTYPE tells the web browser which version of HTML the page is written in. It needs to be placed at the top of the web page before any code
Doctype Switching	The Doctype tells the browser which specification to use when rendering the HTML . without it the browser will use Quirks Mode.
DOM	The DOM, document object model is a specification for html, xhtml and xml documents on how objects are represented. The DOM allows the interactivity of a scripting language such as javaScript.
ECMAScript	ECMAScript is the scripting language that forms the basis of JavaScript.
javascript	JavaScript is a scripting language designed primarily for adding interactivity to Web pages.
JAWS Job Access With Speech	JAW is a screen reader that allows blind and visually impaired users to read the screen either with a text-to-speech output or by a Refreshable Braille display.
Lie, Håkon W	Håkon Lie, web pioneer and standards activist He proposed the very first Cascading Style Sheet. Which he published in 1994.
Internet Explorer. IE	Web Browser owned by Microsoft. Started in 1995 and for a number of years was the leading browser in terms of users.

Lerdorf, Rasmus	Created PHP. It was originally called "Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools)". php is a server side scripting language which is designed for the web.