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Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of screens and videos of old websites, mobile apps and software from 1990s to mid-2000s.
On November 11, 1993, students Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina from the University of Illinois programmed one of the first web browsers with a graphical interface – Mosaic 1.0.

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November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In November 1999, the Zombo dot com website was created as a parody of the creative, but, largely pointless flash intros, which were trending at the end of the 1990s. Welcome... to ZomboCom.

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November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
On November 9, 2004, Mozilla Corporation released a multiplatform web browser, Firefox 1.0.

Firefox gained major popularity among users and exceeded 1 billion downloads between 2004 and 2009.

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November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
On November 8, 2006, Windows Vista was released to manufacturing

Windows Vista website in 2007
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Digital Art Before the AI Era

Cubadust wallpapers in 2001
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
YouTube video player evolution 2005–2025

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November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Ready to work as a web designer in 2002

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November 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Grand Theft Auto Vice City website in 2002

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November 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Windows 95 Screensaver – 3D Maze
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Windows Media Player Headspace Skin in Windows XP
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The Sims website in 2000

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November 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
YouTube Halloween homepage on October 31, 2007
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
RealOne Player in 2002
October 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
How it started in 1997
vs.
How it’s going in 2025

#InternetHistory
October 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags!

On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags.

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October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Newgrounds website in 2007
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Google Mobile website in 2009
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy 31st Birthday The First Web Banner!

On October 27, 1994, The AT&T Telecommunications Company placed the first web banner in Internet history on the HotWired magazine website.

The first web banner in the world was 476×56 px.

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October 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Disney Channel website in 1999

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October 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
KFC website in 2002

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October 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Happy 24th Birthday Wayback Machine!

On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine.

The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Happy 24th Birthday Windows XP!

On October 25, 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP and began a new era of Windows operating systems.
October 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
On October 23, 2001, Apple introduced the first-generation iPod.
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
On October 22, 2009, Windows 7 became generally available.
October 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
On October 21, 2010, Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7, a mobile phone whose user interface was created using flat design.

The new visual style received positive feedback, and Microsoft used flat design elements in the design of the Windows 8 graphics interface.
October 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM