

The W3C was created in October 1994 to "lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability." This discouraged any one company from monopolizing a propriety browser and programming language, which could have altered the effect of the World Wide Web as a whole. There had been no integrated approach to graphic design elements such as images or sounds. At the time there were multiple browsers, however the majority of them were Unix-based and naturally text-heavy. In 1993 Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, created the Mosaic browser. Text-only HTML pages could be viewed using a simple line-mode web browser. From 1991 to 1993 the World Wide Web was born. In 1989, whilst working at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee proposed to create a global hypertext project, which later became known as the World Wide Web. In November 1993 ALIWEB was the first ever search engine to be created (Archie Like Indexing for the WEB).

In early history, the structure of the websites was fragile and hard to contain, so it became very difficult to use them. Eventually, web designers were able to find their way around it to create more structures and format. During this period, websites were structured by using the tag which created numbers on the website.

The web was announced on August 6, 1991, and CERN was the first website to go live on the World Wide Web. In November 1992, Cern was the first website to ever launch to go live.

It is hard to imagine the Internet without animated graphics, different styles of typography, background, videos and music. It has become a large part of people's everyday lives. Although web design has a fairly recent history, it can be linked to other areas such as graphic design, user experience, and multimedia arts, but is more aptly seen from a technological standpoint.
