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