Happy 16th Birthday Responsive Web Design! On May 25, 2010, web designer Ethan Marcotte published an article entitled "Responsive Web Design" in the online magazine A List Apart. #WebDesignHistory

On May 25, 1995, three web designers - Jeffrey Zeldman, Steve McCarron, and Alec Pollak - created an official website for Batman Forever. At the time, it was one of the first web projects that used the WWW service as a marketing and visual medium. #WebDesignHistory

YouTube - PlayStation's Channel in 2011

John Cusack website in 1996

Windows 7 website in 2009

Windows Media Player Headspace Skin in Windows XP

Dancing Baby, also known as "Baby Cha-Cha" or Oogachack Baby was one of the first viral internet memes back in 1996. The 3D-rendered baby was dancing to the intro of “Hooked on a Feeling” by the Swedish band Blue Swede.

Photoshop logo evolution 1988–2025

Have you ever wondered what X dot com looked like in 1997? It looked exactly like this :-)

Y2K Aesthetic in Web Design in 2001 – 123KLAN – Kakimorphosis – T.26 – Warp Records #WebDesignHistory

Apple website in 2006

Restart Windows XP

YouTube channels of famous musicians in 2008 – Britney Spears – Linkin Park – Madonna – Metallica

Nostalgic icons

In May 1998, Adobe released Adobe Photoshop 5.0 bitmap graphics editor. Windows and Macintosh versions were launched simultaneously. Photoshop 5.0 included new features such as magnetic lasso and pen, freeform pen, color management, and more.

Windows Mobile website in 2005

Happy 30th Birthday Internet Archive! On May 10, 1996, Brewster Kahle founded a non-profit organization called the Internet Archive. #InternetHistory

Happy 31st Birthday of the term User Experience! The term User Experience was probably first heard in public at the CHI '95 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems held on May 7-11, 1995 in Denver.

Fight Club movie flash website in 1999

Metroid Prime Desktop Theme for Windows XP

Happy 23rd Birthday CSS Zen Garden! In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden. #WebDesignHistory

On 5 May 2025, Skype was officially retired. Skype GUI in 2003

Popular iPhone apps in 2010 – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – Yahoo Messenger, Netflix, Skype #MobileAppHistory

May the 4th be with you! Happy Star Wars Day! Star Wars website in 2006

On May 3, 2000, Mark Gorton launched LimeWire, one of the services that reshaped how music spread online.

Ask Jeeves website in 2000

Burger King website in 2002 #WebDesignHistory

The Matrix website in 1999 #WebDesignHistory

On 29 April, 2010, Steve Jobs penned a controversial open letter titled “Thoughts on Flash” while he was CEO of Apple, criticizing Adobe Flash and outlining why it would not be permitted on Apple’s iOS hardware. #WebDesignHistory

The Hampster Dance website in 1999 This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998. #InternetHistory

Page not found - GitHub in 2013

Web design trends in 2001 – 2Advanced Studios v3 – Bionic Systems – Floodgear – Tonic Group #WebDesignHistory

RuneScape website in 2000

On April 24, 2015, Apple launched the first Apple Watch

Windows XP Shutdown Screen vs. Windows Vista Shutdown Screen

On 23 April, 2005, the first video called “Me at the zoo” was uploaded to YouTube by one of the co-founders, Jawed Karim. It was a short video from the San Diego Zoo. #InternetHistory

YouTube video player evolution 2005–2025

ICQ User Interface in 2005

Valve homepage in 2000

Super Mario 64 DS website in 2004

Twitter (X) logo evolution 2006–2023

Spotify in 2008

Web design trends in 1996 – AltaVista – Lego – Nokia – Space Jam #WebDesignHistory

Facebook Messenger for iPhone in 2013

In April 1998, Macromedia released the Macromedia Fireworks 1.0 graphics program. The program was able to work with both vector and bitmap graphics and was designed specially for web designers. #WebDesignHistory

Netflix logo evolution 1997–2026

Nero 6 Ultra Edition in 2004

Web designer's desktop in 2002 #WebDesignHistory

On 10 April, 1995, The Norwegian company Opera Software first introduced to the public a new MultiTorg Opera 1.0 web browser that used MDI (Multiple Document Interface) technology.

iTunes website in 2008