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History of UI frameworks
The very first CSS frameworks were: YUI, and Blueprint.
http://yuilibrary.com
http://blueprintcss.org
http://960.gs/
Twitter bootstrap grid was based on 960.gs
http://getbootstrap.com
Bootstrap competition
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/
http://getskeleton.com/
http://gumbyframework.com/
http://malarkey.github.io/Rock-Hammer/
http://tuktuk.tapquo.com/
https://docs.atlassian.com/aui/latest/docs/
There were alternatives that aimed to provide a very small base set of styles instead of everything and the kitchen sink.
http://www.unsemantic.com/
http://zengrids.com/
http://baselinecss.com/
Then some came that were meant for web-apps alone instead of web-sites:
http://topcoat.io/
http://purecss.io/
http://pea.rs/
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I'm not sure about the rest of the chronology, but 960.gs definitely came before Bootstrap.

In fact, the original Bootstrap grid was based on 960 (before Bootstrap was responsive).


The very first CSS frameworks were: YUI, and Blueprint.

http://yuilibrary.com

http://blueprintcss.org

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