Internet History
Slides: History, Internet, Social and Mobile
- A Computer Nerd’s History of the Internet
- Hobbes’ Internet Timeline 10.2
- Key milestones in the development of Internet
We are at a moment in time, we have come far, and we will go far.Key Innovators: People
- Internet pioneers win engineering prize
- The internet’s fifth man
- Vinton Cerf: Internet
- Robert Kahn: Internet
- Ray Tomlinson: e-mail
- David Mills
(Network Time Protocol) - David Faber, while his name may not be as familiar, he is in the Internet Hall of Fame, and is a University of Delaware Professor. In fact the University of Delaware has played a role in the evolution of the internet and technologies than many might not appreciate. Among the notable events, Linus Torvalds used a UD based newsgroup to announce Linux, and Apple’s touchscreen technology was
originally designed at Delaware (FingerWorks). - Tim Berners-Lee: HTML
- Marc Andressen: Browser (now Venture Guy)
- Bill Gates Microsoft
- Steve Jobs: Tech Time Warp of the Week: Steve Jobs Predicts the Future, 1980, and A ‘1984’ Reader 30 Years Later: A Brief History of Apple’s Instantly Iconic Super Bowl Commercial
- Richard Stallman: Free Software
- Linus Torvalds: Linux
- Jeff Bezos: Amazon
- Larry Page: Google
- Sergey Brin: Google
- Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook
Key Innovators: Organizations
- Xerox: 1906
- IBM: 1911
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Microsoft: 1975
- Apple: 1976
- America Online: 1985
- Netscape: 1994
- Yahoo!: 1994 (Yahoo’s Geek Goddess)
- World Wide Web Consortium: 1994
- eBay: 1995 (2008: Airbnb)
- Craigslist: 1995
- Hotmail: 1996
- DoubleClick: 1998 IPO
- Napster: 1999
- Amazon: 1995
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers: 1998
- Google: 1998
- Blogger: 1999
- Friendster: 2002
- BlackBerry: 2003
- MySpace: 2003
- Facebook: 2004
Key Milestones
- 1400s Gutenberg’s Printing Press: Movable type
- 1833 Computer
- 1837 Telegraph: real-time global communication
- 1876 Telephone: synchronous communications
- Internet: Pre-web
- 1946 ENIAC General purpose computer
- 1957 Sputnik
- 1969 Arpanet
- 1972 @sign
- 1973 TCP/IP
- 1977 Apple II
(Steve Jobs, 1980: “I don’t think Apple II is ever going to be obsolete”) - 1978 Visicalc
- 1978 Spam
- 1979 Emoticons
- 1981 Minitel (France)
- 1983 Domain Name System
- 1984 Usenet
- 1985 Microsoft Windows
- 1990 HTML
- 1990 Microsoft Office
- 1991 Gopher
- 1991 Linux
- 1993 GUI Browser
- Internet: Web
- 1994 web browser
- 1994 banner advertisement
- 1995 MSN (when did Bill Gates say that the Internet was just a passing fad ?)
- 1996 web-based e-mail
- 2000 dot.com bubble (for example: pets.com, webvan)
- 2001 iPod and iTunes (Sony Walkman in 1980)
- 2002 social media
- Internet: Mobile
Other
- 1997: Cathedral and the Bazaar: Making sense of large-scale Open Source
- 1999: Cluetrain Manifesto: How blogging tipped the balance in favor of the consumer
- Viewing Where the Internet Goes: Interview with Cerf and Kahn