Periodismo Digital

By Coraareyes

  • Ted Nelson formulates the concept of hypertext

  • The first print reference of "hypertext" appears

  • ARPANET, computer network created by the U.S. Defense Department

    Forerunner of today's Internet, goal was to make a computer that could understand nuclear attack

  • The first teletext system, "Rolodex in the sky"

    A loop of "pages" broadcast on TV, not interactive, service is limited, slow

  • Three competing technologies: teletext, videotext and computers

    British Post Office's Research Laboratory demonstrates "Viewdata" (later "Prestel"), the first Videotext service, interactive, supporting two way communication, users could browse, photo display

  • Telidon, advanced videotext system

    Goes into operation in 1979, considered a world leader with advanced graphic technology

  • First computer

    Based online dial-up services emerge

  • Time Magazine names the computer "Machine of the Year"

  • Apple introduces the Macintosh computer

    Cost $2,495 US, in 75 days 50,000 are sold

  • Worldwide 22 nations are involved in videotext and teletext

  • Computers readily avaliable in university computer labs and offices

    First personal printer appears

  • Internet Relay Chat

    Developed by finish graduate student Jarkko Oikarinen, DARPA makes internet public

  • Hypertext Markup Language

    Invented by Tim Berners-Lee

  • Browser is released by University in Kansas

    Non-graphical

  • First graphical Web browser for Windows

    Web grows at a 341,634% annual rate of service traffic, October - First journalism site on the Web is launched, December - First article about the web appears in the New York Times

  • The first newspaper to regularly publish to the Web

    The Palo Alto Weekly, April - Yahoo "Internet index" is started by Stanford PhD, June - The first Canadian newspaper, the Halifax Daily News goes online

  • First major event in which people turn to the Internet for current information

    Oklahoma City Bombing, May - More than 150 news outlets in North America now have online editions, October - The Boston Globe launches Boston.com on the Web, a unique site

  • The Internet becomes part of a major news story

    "Heaven's Gate" suicides, members of the Heaven's Gate cult create a website before commiting suicide, the Smoking Gun debuts - it publishes entire court documents and other primary sources online, first time a mainstream news organization breaks a major story on its website not its newspaper

  • Monica Lewinsky demonstrates news sites can seize a national news agenda

    U.S. President Clinton is involved with the White House intern who demonstrates news sites can seize a national news agenda

  • Mainstream news sites begin to involve their audience

  • Online news operations stumble...then recover...

  • Classified listings flee print and take money with them

    Breaking News is free, the dawn of citizen journalism

  • Bloggers lead the way in forcing CBS to retract its story on George W. Bush's military service

  • Mainstream media starts harnessing user-generated video

    News sites wish to establish citizen communities

  • More sites were becoming profitable

  • Bloggers face greater legal scrutiny

    Citizen media grows in importance