Internet History Timeline

Internet History Timeline

This History Timeline has been developed to provide a 'snapshot' of the famous people and
events during this historical time period. Important dates in a fast, comprehensive,
chronological, or date order providing an actual sequence of important
past events which were of considerable significance to the
famous people involved in this time period.
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	1822	Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer
	1848	Boolean algebra is invented by George Boole
	1880	Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone called the Photophone
	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.

Internet History Timeline

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