Can you imagine a world without the internet? Today, I use my phone, tablet, and computer to access the web to search for useful information, complete intricate and simple tasks, find entertaining videos and movies, browse items for sale and purchase a variety of goods, pay bills and manage my finances, and engage in conversations with my friends and family. While I can remember a world before the internet took over my life, it's hard for me to imagine a world without the internet. I rely on the internet for so many things, it's completely foreign to me to even imagine a world where I don't conduct research on the internet, find out what's going on in the world, or stay in touch with my friends. It seems like the internet makes getting things done much easier, simpler, and faster. The internet looks completely different today than it did when the first websites went online, and it's amazing how much the web has changed. Designers are constantly coming up with new and cool ways to change the way we interact with the internet. Before we check out the latest trends in web design, let's take a look back at the evolution of web design starting with the birth of the internet.

Birth of the Internet

The development of the internet began in the 1950s, with basic discussions of social interactions connected through networks. In the early 1960s, collaborative work between the University of California in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, the Stanford Research Institute, and University of Utah fostered the creation of ARPANet. ARPANet allowed researchers at UCLA to send a message over a series of interconnected networks to researchers at the Stanford Research Institute. It was simply amazing, and shortly after that the internet was born. In 1982, the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) was created and standardized, which provided people general guidelines or how data should be transmitted, received, and packaged across the internet. TCP/IP, is basically a manual for how to use the internet, and in the mid-1990s we were introduced to the first web browser (the WWW) by Tim Berners-Lee. Since then, the internet has continued to change and evolve, and so has web design.

Early 1990s

The internet was just born in the 1990s, and so, most sites were strictly text based with first generation HTML. On the WWW only simple text pages could be viewed, however, this quickly changed to incorporate simple images. The 1990s showed us a period of simple websites that featured basic text, it wasn't anything fancy but it provided people with an ease they had never experienced before. Check out some popular websites and how they looked in the 1990s. You'll see that even in a matter of a few years websites quickly have more advanced features and images.

The Present

The internet has definitely changed a lot since the 1990s, and I can't wait to see what's going to happen next. Presently we are seeing trends like responsive web design, parallax, and flat design.

.some-style {
    width: 1170px;
    height: 200px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    background-color: #000000;
}