Timeline: The Internet

1450

Printing Press

Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press

1837

First Computer Designed

Charles Baggage designs the first programmable mechanical computer.

1840

First Computer Programmer

Ada Lovelace is the first computer programmer.

1880

Keypunch Machine

Herman Hollerith invents the keypunch machine that helped launch information processing.

1931

Differential Analyzer

Vannevar Bush builds the first differential analyzer which is used to analyze differential equations.

1936

First Electronic Digital Computer

Alan Turning designs first electronic digital computer.

1954

Unimate

George Devol creates first digitally operated and programmed robot called Unimate to work on assembly lines.

1965

ARPANET

Larry Roberts and Thomas Merril connect a computer in Massachusetts to a computer In California using dial-up phone line to create the first computer network.

1972

Internet Protocol

Robert Kahn introduces The Internet Protocol to the public at the International Computer Communication Conference in 1972.

1972

First Email

Ray Tomlinson sends the first email message and decides to use "@" as the electronic locator symbol.

1973

Desk Sized Computers

IBM and Hewlett-Packard create the first desk sized programmable computers.

1974

Internet

Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalalm and Carl Sunshine first use the world "Internet".

1976

Apple Computers

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak create the first Apple computers

1991

World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Wed. WWW 2005

1993

Web Technology Available

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) makes web technology available to the world at not cost to any specific party.

1996

Telecommunications Act of 1996

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is passed to promote competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality services for American telecommunications consumers and encourage the rapid development of new telecommunications technologies

1997

Google

Larry Page and Sergey Brin invent Google

1998

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or DMCA) of 1998 introduced to American copyright law prohibitions against the circumvention of technological measures that control access to or use of copyrighted works.