Internet History Timeline

1895

Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi

1923

Television Electronic was invented by Philo Farnsworth

1924

Electro Mechanical television system was invented by John Logie Baird

1931

Kurt Godel publishes a paper on the use of a universal formal language

1937

Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine

1959

Paul Baran theorises on the "survivability of communication systems under nuclear attack", digital technology and symbiosis between humans and machines

1963

Douglas Engelbart invents and patents the first computer mouse (nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end)

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is developed to standardize data exchange among computers.

1965

Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson coin the term "hypertext"

1971

E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson

Liquid Crystal Display ( LCD ) was invented by James Fergason

1973

The minicomputer Xerox Alto (1973) was a landmark step in the development of personal computers

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn develop gateway routing computers to negotiate between the various national networks

1974

IBM develops SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language ) now known as SQL

Charles Simonyi coins the term WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) to describe the ability of being able to display a file or document exactly how it is going to be printed or viewed

1975

Altair produces the first portable computer

The Microsoft Corporation was founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800

1976

Apple Computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs

1977

Apple Computer’s Apple II, the first personal computer with color graphics, is demonstrated

Ward Christensen writes the programme "MODEM" allowing two microcomputers to exchange files with each other over a phone line

1978

The first magnetic tape is developed in the US

1979

Over half a million computers are in use in the United States.

1980

IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. They buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template to develop DOS.

1981

MS-DOS Computer Operating System increases its success

1982

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is introduced

1983

More than 10 million computers are in use in the United States

Domain Name System (DNS) pioneered by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Craig Partridge. Seven 'top-level' domain names are initially introduced: edu, com, gov, mil, net, org and int.

Microsoft Windows introduced eliminating the need for a user to have to type each command, like MS-DOS, by using a mouse to navigate through drop-down menus, tabs and icons

1984

William Gibson coins the word cyberspace when he publishes Neuromancer

1986

More than 30 million computers are in use in the United States.

1988

Over 45 million PCs are in use in the United States.

1990

The Internet, World Wide Web & Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet

1991

The World Wide Web: The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991

1993

At the beginning of the year only 50 World Wide Web servers are known to exist

1994

The World Wide Web Consortium is founded by Tim Berners-Lee to help with the development of common protocols for the evolution of the World Wide Web

YAHOO is created in April, 1994.

1995

Java is introduced

Amazon.com is founded by Jeff Bezos

EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar

Hotmail is started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia.

1996

WebTV is introduced

1997

Altavista introduces its free online translator Babel Fish

Microsoft acquires Hotmail

1998

Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998

PayPal is founded by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin

2001

Bill Gates introduces the Xbox on January 7th 2001.

2002

Approximately 1 billion PCs been sold

PayPal is acquired by eBay

2005

September 12: eBay acquires Skype

2006

Skype announces that it has over 100 million registered users.

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