Timeline

Birth of Internet

By mdvorak
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    Sputnik is launched
  • ARPA

    ARPA
    The United States Department of Defence develops ARPA
  • Hypertext

    Hypertext
    Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson coin the term "hypertext"
  • Birth of Internet

    Birth of Internet
    ARPANET
  • Altair

    Altair
    Altair produces the first portable computer
  • Checkpoint

    Checkpoint
    Over half a million computers are in use in the United States
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    The World Wide Web becomes operational by the NSF
  • Albert Gore

    Albert Gore
    Albert Gore (D-TN) introduce S 2594Supercomputer Network Study Act of 1986
  • Internet Conection

    Internet Conection
    Operatable Internet when wiring straight up to it
  • ITU

    ITU
    Gore's "International Telecommunications Union"
  • Google

    Google
    Goole is Born
  • Electronic Letters

    Electronic Letters
    Stamps go electronic -- E-mail. Invented by Ray Tomlinson
  • Myspace

    Myspace
    Myspace is invented
  • Xbox

    Xbox
    Bill Gates introduces the Xbox
  • iTunes

    iTunes
    iTunes is introduced