Web Design The Evolution of the Digital World 1990-today

<p>The last three decades have marked an era of technological upheaval as frenetic and groundbreaking as there ever has been. From early desktop computers and mobile phones to virtual reality: <b>the web is now virtually inseparable from all facets of human interaction and daily life</b>. But it wasn't always funny cat videos and sleek interfaces.<br> <br> This collection is a visual journey through time, gathering <b>the very earliest examples of what we today take for granted</b>: the first website to use surround sound, the first drag-and-drop navigation, the first page-turn effect, the first website to use seamless video integration, the first viral site, the first parallax website, the first 'upload-your-face' website, the first site to incorporate a mobile phone, the first ever YouTube-like "website", and many more.<br> <br> It gathers <b>more than 200 websites</b>, and each comes with quotes and insights from the creators themselves-<b>an invaluable peek into the minds of pioneers who paved the pixelized way for many to follow</b>, including Jonathan Gay (Flash), Gabo Mendoza (Gabocorp), Yugo Nakamura (Yugop), Peter Van Den Wyngaert (NRG.BE), Joshua Davis (Praystation), and Eric Jordan (2Advanced).<br> <br> This comprehensive visual history gathers <b>21 chapters that detail, for every year since 1998, the best websites and examples of hardware used at the time</b>, and explore how user experience, usability, and technological milestones have influenced the development of the internet we use today. <b>Year-by-year factsheets</b> and smart <b>Google insights</b> orient the reader through major developments across such categories as world news headlines, highest grossing films, new soft and hardware, greatest website traffic, and many more.<br> <br> For many, this collection will offer a virtual trip down nostalgia lane-but all generations will find <b>a sweeping reference work</b> as well as a celebration of how the earliest creative minds came to define the web, and eventually the world, as we know it.</p>