Editing Web design (section)

====The start of the web and web design====
In 1989, whilst working at [[CERN]] in Switzerland, British scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee]] proposed to create a global [[hypertext]] project, which later became known as the [[World Wide Web]]. From 1991 to 1993 the World Wide Web was born. [[Text-based web browser|Text-only]] [[HTML]] pages could be viewed using a simple line-mode [[web browser]].<ref name="World Wide Web">{{cite web
  |title=Longer Biography
  |url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html
  |access-date=2012-03-16
}}</ref>  In 1993 [[Marc Andreessen]] and [[Eric Bina]], created the [[Mosaic browser]]. At the time there were multiple browsers, however the majority of them were Unix-based and naturally text-heavy. There had been no integrated approach to [[graphic design]] elements such as [[digital image|image]]s or [[digital audio|sound]]s. The [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic browser]] broke this mould.<ref>{{cite web
  |title=Mosaic Browser
  |url=http://www.techopedia.com/images/pdfs/history-of-the-internet.pdf
  |access-date=2012-03-16
  |archive-date=2013-09-02
  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902095803/http://www.techopedia.com/images/pdfs/history-of-the-internet.pdf
  
  }}</ref>  The [[W3C]] was created in October 1994 to "lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common [[HTTP|protocol]]s that promote its evolution and ensure its [[Interoperability#Software|interoperability]]."<ref>{{cite book
  |author=Zwicky, E.D |author2=Cooper, S |author3=Chapman, D.B.
  |title=Building Internet Firewalls
  |year=2000
  |publisher=O'Reily & Associates
  |location=United States
  |isbn=1-56592-871-7
  |page=[https://archive.org/details/buildinginternet00zwic/page/804 804]
  |url=https://archive.org/details/buildinginternet00zwic/page/804
  }}</ref>  This discouraged any one company from monopolizing a proprietary browser and [[programming language]], which could have altered the effect of the World Wide Web as a whole. The W3C continues to set standards, which can today be seen with [[JavaScript]] and other languages. In 1994 Andreessen formed Mosaic Communications Corp. that later became known as [[Netscape Communications]], the [[Netscape (web browser)|Netscape 0.9 browser]]. Netscape created its HTML tags without regard to the traditional standards process. For example, Netscape 1.1 included tags for changing background colours and formatting text with [[HTML element#Tables|tables]] on web pages. From 1996 to 1999 the [[browser wars]] began, as [[Microsoft]] and [[Netscape]] fought for ultimate browser dominance. During this time there were many new technologies in the field, notably [[Cascading Style Sheets]], [[JavaScript]], and [[Dynamic HTML]]. On the whole, the browser competition did lead to many positive creations and helped web design evolve at a rapid pace.<ref name=Browsers >{{cite book
  |last=Niederst  |first=Jennifer
  |title=Web Design In a Nutshell
  |year=2006|publisher=O'Reilly Media
  |location=United States of America
  |isbn=0-596-00987-9
  |pages=12–14
  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bdf4vS2n7N8C&q=history+of+web+design&pg=PT42
}}</ref>