Essay Advantage

Technology stack used

The web in 2006

What was the web like back then?

• Top browser

  IE6

  90% of users were using Internet Explorer

• Screen size

  1024×768

  on a 15-inch flat screen, or CRT monitor

• High-speed internet

  59%

  of US adults didn't have high-speed internet at home

Building for the web in 2006

• New this year

  jQuery and CodeIgniter were born. IE7 finally shipped in October, five years after IE6.

• Couldn't do yet

  Rounded corners in CSS. Internet Explorer couldn't do them until 2011, so every rounded corner was an image.