Timeline: History of Online Journalism

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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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