Timeline of the History of the Internet
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 (packet switching and distributed networks)
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 TomlinsonLiquid 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 SQLCharles 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 computerThe 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 Jobs1977Apple Computer’s Apple II, the first personal computer with color graphics, is demonstratedWard 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 StatesDomain 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. 1988Over 45 million PCs are in use in the United States. 1990The Internet, World Wide Web & Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet1991The 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 WebYAHOO is created in April, 1994.
1995 Java is introducedAmazon.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, 1998PayPal is founded by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin
2001 Bill Gates introduces the Xbox on January 7th 2001.
2002 Approximately 1 billion PCs been soldPayPal is acquired by eBay
2005 September 12: eBay acquires Skype 2006Skype announces that it has over 100 million registered users.