Third Industrial Revolution

By TimeWarped

  • First Transistor

    John Bardeen invented the germanium-based point-contact transistor

  • Alan Turing publishes paper on machines that can think

    Alan Turing publishes a landmark paper speculating about the possibility of creating a machine that thinks. Many consider this to be the birth of AI.

  • Development of ARPAnet

    Birth of modern communications. US Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) begins the development of protocols used for internet communications today. Based on packet switching technology.

  • Frist ISP - Telenet

    Telenet was released as the first commercial version of ARPAnet an Internet Service Provider

  • Ethernet Standardized

  • First Cell Phone Motorola DynaTac

    1G - Analog communication

  • First Fully Digital Camera

    Fujifilm FUJIX DS-1P capable of saving data to a semiconductor memory card

  • HTML Development

    Tim Berners-Lee scientist at CERN develops the HTML language.

  • WWW for Government and Universities ONLY

  • 2G Digital Cell Phones

    GSM standard in Finland

  • First Web Browser Source Code Released

    Tim Berners-Lee released the source code for the world’s first web browser and editor.

  • WhiteHouse Goes Online

    The White House and the UN go online

  • WWW Released to public

    European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) put the web into the public domain

  • Amazon, Craigslist and eBay go live

  • Google's goes online

    Google search engine is born

  • 3G Cell Networks

    First 3G networks to go commercially live

  • Facebook goes live

  • 4G Cell Service Released

    First commercial 4G LTE deployment was in the Scandinavian capitals Stockholm and Oslo by the Swedish-Finnish network operator TeliaSonera and its Norwegian brandname NetCom (Norway).