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Invention of The First Computer
ENIAC was the first electric general-purpose computer. It was capable of being reprogrammed to solve "a large class of numerical problems". -
First Invented Hard Drive
The IBM 350 Disk File, invented by Reynold Johnson, was introduced in 1956 with the IBM 305 RAMAC computer. This drive had fifty 24 inches (0.61 m) platters, with a total capacity of five million 6-bit characters (3.75 megabytes). -
ARPAnet Project Initiated
Directing ARPA’s computer research program, Robert Taylor initiates the ARPAnet project, the foundation for today’s Internet. -
Home Computers
Computers became affordable for the general public in the 1970s due to the mass production of the microprocessor starting in 1971. -
Ray Tomlinson Invents Email
Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents the email program to send messages across a distributed network. The "@" sign is chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson's Model 33 Teletype to separate local from global emails, making "user@host" the email standard. -
First Internet Exchange Point Established
Dr. Glenn Ricart sets up the first Internet Exchange point, connecting the original federal TCP/IP networks and first U.S. commercial and non-commercial Internet networks. -
Vint Cerf, Robert Kahn Found Internet Society
Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn found the Internet Society. Meanwhile, hosts on the Internet pass the one million mark. -
Blogs First Appear
The advent of web publishing tools available to non-technical users spurs the rise of blogs. -
Aaron Swartz Co-Creates RSS
Aaron Swartz co-creates RSS, a program that collects news from various web pages and puts them in one place for readers, with the goal of making information freely available to everyone. -
Internet Society Founds Internet Hall of Fame
The Internet Society founds the Internet Hall of Fame and the first 33 members are inducted in a ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland.
