From Macromedia Flash to augmented reality: Exploring the history of web design 🖥️
Take your browsing low-fi with Taschen’s fascinating – and very physical volume – on the history of web designRegarded as the ‘biggest thing to happen since the industrial revolution’, the web has changed the world. Here, we look to Taschen’sto celebrate the moments, sites and people who have made the biggest impact in its 30-year history.
Each chapter features fascinating facts of the year that visualise the immense growth of the web – in 1998and iMac had only just launched and 3.6 per cent of the world population used the internet – fast forward ten years to 2008, and 23.6 per cent of the world population uses the internet, Google is the website with the most traffic globally and Apple launches it’s App Store.
From the ashes of Macromedia Flash emerged a new Internet era: HTML5. Driven by user-friendly interface app experiences, the arrival of HTML5 was hailed as the future of mobile devices and kick-started a new pace in technological advances – but as Ford points out, signified web-design’s move away from the creativity that Flash enabled.
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