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First commercial modem
In 1962, the first commercial modem was manufactured - the Bell 103 by AT&T. The Bell 103 was also the first modem with full-duplex transmission, frequency-shift keying or FSK, and had a speed of 300 bits per second or 300 bauds. -
Ethernet before Ethernet
1973-1975: While working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Robert Metcalfe develops a system which replaces radio transmission of network data with a cable that provides a larger amount of bandwidth.This system is originally known as the Alto Aloha network but which was later known as Ethernet. Metcalfe would later leave Xerox to found 3Com. -
"Internet"
The word "Internet" is used for the first time to describe the ARPANET -
Got windows?
Microsoft ships the first version of Microsoft Windows -
First commercial internet service provider.
November 1989. The S.S. Pierce Building, original Brookline headquarters of The World. The World is an Internet service provider originally headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts. It was the first commercial ISP in the world, with its first customer logging on in November 1989. -
Windows 3.1 realease
Windows 3.1 was originally released on April 6, 1992; official support for Windows 3.1 ended on December 31, 2001 -
56K modem
The 56K modem was invented by Dr. Brent Townshend in 1996. -
HTML
Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML, The foundation for the world wide web -
Gmail
Gmail started as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004[10] and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though still in beta status at that time. -
Google docs released
In February 2007, Google Docs was made available to Google Apps users. -
Changing times!
Mark Moon sends his first E-mail.
