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A timeline of component design thinking, from CSS to web components
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It should be noted that each creator was not the sole contributor. But either presented the idea, or became the outspoken advocate for it.

Name Creator(s) Year Notes
BEM Yandex 2006–2010 According to the site, they claim to have used it internally since 2006. But the public release was in 2010.
OOCSS Nicole Sullivan 2008 ️According to Nicole Sullivan, code started in 2004 but first talk was in 2008
Sketch 2010 Version 3, introducing Symbols and many other hallmark features, released 2014
SMACSS Jonathan Snook 2011
Web Components Alex Russell 2011 Introduced at Frontiers Conference in 2011 (Oct 12–15)
Bootstrap Twitter 2011 Released Aug 19
Foundation Zurb 2011 Released September
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