History of Computer Science

Computer Science has grown quite a bit over the years. To think barely two decades ago, websites looked so simplistic, where having images and text online was already a big deal (click here to see more images of old websites).  

These days, people are doing all sorts of crazy stuff with their websites after the newer versions of HTML, CSS and libraries for JavaScript such as jQuery. It’s hard to believe that everyday technology in the field of Computer Science is growing at such a fast rate, but since we’re living in the moment, we don’t always notice it immediately. From my experience with websites, I remember being able to put together an HTML file with my name on it and showing it to my family. I thought I was doing great at the time, and during that time, it truly was a great thing to do something so simplistic. These days, after learning the new versions of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, the new library jQuery and several other programming languages such as PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, I realized that Computer Science has grown a significant amount. There are interactive and mobile friendly websites everywhere. Google, Facebook, YouTube, etc. are all websites that have changed over the years. Thankfully the W3C or the World Wide Web Consortium was created. This prevented web design code to be monopolized by large companies and they also maintain the rules of coding techniques for web design.