Transcript ISC340 Web Programming

ISC340 Web Programming
Internet Success Stories
Yahoo!
• The first popular Web search engine.
• Created by two graduate electrical engineering in Stanford University, David Filo and Jerry
Yang.
• Started in January 1994 as a website collecting links to other websites organized in
categories. It was called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web”.
• The domain changed to Yahoo.com in January 1995 after it received one million hits.
• Yahoo became a company worth 33.8 Million dollars on April 1996.
• Programming languages used to create the website: HTML, Javascript, PHP
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The most popular video sharing website.
Created by Chad hurley, Steve Chen and Jawad Karim in November 2005.
In 2006 it was the 5th most popular website on the web.
In November 2006 it was sold to Google for 1.65 Billion dollars.
Programming languages used to create the website: HTML, javascript, flash
Facebook
• A social network having one Billion users.
• Created by Mark Zuckerberg (20 years old) in February 2004 as a social network for
Harvard University students.
• After it became popular it expanded to other universities and in 2006 anyone can be
a member of the website.
• In 2008 the value of the website became 4 Billion dollars.
• Programming languages used to create the website: HTML, javascript, java, PHP
Your website
• Create your own idea.
• Started in Kuwait University in 2014.
• Programming languages used to create the website: HTML, CSS, javascript,
XML, XSLT