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On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion. YouTube website in 2006 #InternetHistory

On 12 November 1990, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee set out his proposals for creating the WorldWideWeb project: Proposal for a HyperText Project. #WebDesignHistory

In Feb 2004, Apple & Pepsi gave away 100M free songs via iTunes—codes under Pepsi caps let fans download any track for free.

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. #WebDesignHistory

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. #WebDesignHistory

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. #WebDesignHistory

On November 8, 2006, Windows Vista was released to manufacturing Windows Vista website in 2007

Digital Art Before the AI Era Cubadust wallpapers in 2001

YouTube video player evolution 2005–2025 #WebDesignHistory

Ready to work as a web designer in 2002 #WebDesignHistory

Grand Theft Auto Vice City website in 2002 #WebDesignHistory

Windows 95 Screensaver – 3D Maze

Windows Media Player Headspace Skin in Windows XP

The Sims website in 2000 #WebDesignHistory

YouTube Halloween homepage on October 31, 2007

RealOne Player in 2002

How it started in 1997 vs. How it’s going in 2025 #InternetHistory

Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags! On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags. #WebDesignHistory

Newgrounds website in 2007

Google Mobile website in 2009

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. #WebDesignHistory

Disney Channel website in 1999 #WebDesignHistory

KFC website in 2002 #WebDesignHistory

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.

Happy 24th Birthday Windows XP! On October 25, 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP and began a new era of Windows operating systems.

On October 23, 2001, Apple introduced the first-generation iPod.

On October 22, 2009, Windows 7 became generally available.

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.

Apple website in October 2011 #WebDesignHistory

Valve website in 2005 #WebDesignHistory

The Golden Age of Web Design in 2002 – Conspiracy Games – Halfproject – Urbandesktop – Xeo Freestyle Design #WebDesignHistory

Defragmenting Drive C in Windows 98 SE

Top 100 - Google Video in October 2006 #WebDesignHistory

MSN Messenger 7.5 in 2005

Goodbye, MTV! It had to happen someday. MTV Online website in 1995

Web design trends in 1999 – Backstreet Boys – Bikini – eBoy – Mortal Kombat #WebDesignHistory

On October 13, 1994, The Mosaic Communications Corporation launched, under the name Mosaic Netscape 0.9, the first one in a series of browsers, called Netscape Navigator. #InternetHistory

Netflix web banner in 2005 #WebDesignHistory

On 12 October 2011, iCloud, a cloud service developed by Apple, was launched.

PlayStation website in 2006 #WebDesignHistory

Do you remember what your favorite Flash websites were at the turn of the millennium? These are my favorites: – 2Advanced Studios v3 in 2001 – Homestar Runner in 2003 – MONO*crafts in 1999 – Zombo (dot) com in 1999 #WebDesignHistory

Microsoft Word 2002

Apple website in October 2002 in Netscape Communicator 4.7 #WebDesignHistory

Peak of skeuomorphism AmpliTube App for iPhone in 2011 #MobileAppHistory

Did you prefer the Winamp skin Classic or Modern or Custom skin?

On October 6, 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger published an Instagram app for sharing photos and short videos in the App Store. Instagram 1.0 for iPhone in 2010 #MobileAppHistory

Apple Homepage October 5, 2011

Instagram icon evolution 2010–2025

MiniClip website in 2007 #WebDesignHistory