Journalism

History of Online Journalism

By Pcarvajal
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    1963

    Ted Nelson formulates the hypertext.
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    1969

    U.S. Defese Department createed ARPANET. ARPANET is a computer network.
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    1971

    BBC files created the first teletext called "Rolodex in the sky".
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    1974

    The British Post Office's Research Laboratory domostrates the Videotext service
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    1975

    Canada begins development of Teledon, advanced videotext system.
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    1981-82

    Created first computer based online dial-up service emerge. These are Compuserve, The Sources aned the Prodigy.
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    1983

    Time magazinesnames the computer "Machine of the Year"
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    1984

    Apple introduces the Macintosh computer. Cost $2,495 US and it was a black and white monitor.
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    1985

    Worldwide two nations are involved in videotext and teletext.
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    1986

    Computers are available in university, labs, and, offices.
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    1988

    IRC (Internet Relay Unit) is developed by Finnish graduate student Jarkhe Oikarinen. DARPA makes the Internet public
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    1990

    Hypertext Markup Language is invented by Tim Beeners-Lac, on Englishman, and colleagues at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory.
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    1992

    Lynx is released by the University of Kansas. Lynx is a non-graphical Web and Gopher browser.
    26 servers exist on the World Wide Web, according to CERN.
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    1993

    The University of Illinoi is released the first graphical Web browser for Windows.
    Compu Server, Prodigy and AOL combined 3.9 million U.S. subscribers.
    The New York Times launched the first article about the web.
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    1994

    The Polo Alto Weekly in California publish on the Web the first newspaper.
    Sandford PhD started The Yahoo “Internet” by David Filo and Jerry Yang.
    First Canadian newspaper goes online, Halifax Daily
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    1995

    In North America have online editions.
    Boston Globe launches Boston.com.
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    1997

    Smoking Gun publishes entire court document and source online.
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    2001

    Online news operations stumble
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    2003

    Blogging software makes web publishing easy and eliminates the need to know HTML
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    2006

    Bloggers win protections in the U.S. and acceptance in Canada.
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    2007

    Bloggers face legal scrutiny.