Web 1.0 is often used to refer to the style of the web before Web 2.0 and the ‘bursting of the dot-com bubble’ in 2001. The term is mostly used to contrast the earlier days of the Web before blogs, wikis, social networking sites and Web-based applications became commonplace. These sites often included the use of framesets, spacer gifs and buttons, and were static web pages using the ‘top-down’ flow of information, where a webmaster would provide information which the users could only read. A lack of computer literacy and slow internet connections added to the restrictions of the internet, all of which resulted in these early methods.
The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cross-platform and language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in web pages.
HTML, an acronym for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of static web pages.
JavaScript is a scripting language used to enable programmatic access to objects within other applications.
In 1995 Hotmail was introduced: the first place to get a free email address, disconnected from an ISP.
Geocities was the most popular place where you could create your own free homepage on the web.
Search engine Altavista was the Google of the last millennium. The first real effort to index the World Wide Web. Since the advent of Google, however, their market share in the industry has dropped to almost nothing, with only visitors from old bookmarks.