The great connectors

Digital Revolution

Period: Jan 1, 1974 to Jan 1, 2004

The Altair - Dr Henry Edward Roberts

Oct 18, 1974

The Alrair 8800, a soldier it yourself kit is created by Henry Roberts

Apple 1 is created by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs

Nov 22, 1974

Steve Wozniak devises a circuit board and monitor and assemn=bles it in his garage with his friend from down the street, Steve Jobs and they sell them

The WWW was introduced

Jan 18, 1994

The world wide web was introduced into the computer world

700 accesible websites

Jan 19, 1994

By this time there were now 700 internet sites accesable for the public

Ordinary people could use the internet

Sep 19, 1994

Ordinary members of the public were able to use the internet and the web

The internet and the P.C became one

Oct 19, 1994

P.Cs were now completely compatibale with the internet and web browsers and could be used by members of the public

The first blog is created by Justin Hall

Oct 19, 1994

A student created a site where he mainly uploaded personal details about his life and family

10,000 accessible websites

Jan 19, 1995

By this time there were approximately 10 000 accessable websites

Social networks (ie Facebook) hit the internet stage

Oct 19, 2004

Various internet and computer geeks of the time create socal networking sites for people all over the world to make accounts and post freely

Google is created

Oct 19, 2004

Larry Page and Sergey Brin create google the search engine for the WWW

Wikipedia is created along with the Web 2.0

Oct 19, 2004

Larry Sanger and Jimmy Donal create wikipedia, a place where poeple can contribute pages and comments to the system

The iPhone is created by Steve Jobs along with all app based programs

Oct 19, 2007

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple announces the iPhone, the first touch screen phone ever and the first Apple phone ever