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An Information Management Proposal
Tim Berners-Lee an English Computer Scientist working at CERN introduces the idea of linked information systems and distributed hypertext to solve problem of information silos at CERN -
World Wide Web is born
Tim Berners Lee invented the three fundamental technologies that remain the foundation of today’s Web (and which you may have seen appear on parts of your Web browser), HTML, URL and HTTP -
Open Source: WWW code made available to the world
CERN agreed to make the underlying code available on a royalty-free basis, for ever. This decision was announced in April 1993, and sparked a global wave of creativity, collaboration and innovation never seen before. -
Online Banking Systems: Stanford Federal Credit Union
Stanford Federal Credit Union was the first financial institution which offered online internet banking services to all of its members. However, first online payment systems weren’t user-friendly at all and required specialized knowledge of encryption or data transfer protocol. -
E-Commerce: The launch of Amazon.com
Amazon launches the "world's biggest bookstore" and e-commerce is born -
Online Marketplace: The Ebay Story
Ebay was the pioneer for a type of site where product or service information is provided by multiple third parties and transactions are processed by the marketplace operator. These is also known as multi-sided platform which has been the inspiration for companies such as Uber and AirBnB. -
Internet Search: Enter Google
Larry Page and Sergey Brin redefine the concept of the search engine opening up the possibilities of the internet and making it accessible to all -
Cloud SaaS: Salesforce redefines Enterprise Software
Mark Benioff an ex-Oracle executive had an idea to start a CRM company, but instead of selling packaged software to businesses Benioff proposed to offer CRM services on the Internet, using central servers to store customers' data. This was to become salesforce.com -
Broadband: The internet went high-speed, changing the way we live, work, shop and play
Telewest launched home ADSL in the UK with Goldsmith Road in Gillingham, Kent, the first street to receive the technology -
Software Development: The Agile Manifesto
The birth of the Agile Movement, introduced a new paradigm for developing software. Agile is a time boxed, iterative approach to software delivery that builds software incrementally from the start of the project. -
Social Media: Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg and his college room mates create the standards in social networking -
Cloud IaaS: Amazon creates first Virtual Data Centre (now AWS)
Amazon launches Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a virtual site farm allowing users to use the Amazon infrastructure to run applications ranging from running simulations to web hosting. -
Smartphones: Apple's iPhone the ubiquitous game changer
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention. Jobs announced that the first iPhone would be released later that year. On June 29, 2007 the first iPhone was released. The iPhone marked the explosion of the smart phone era, effectively putting a computer into everyone's hands. -
Streaming Media: Netflix pioneers Video on Demand
Netflix introduced the service business model in the video-on-demand industry. Netflix used this business model to offer entertainment content using video streaming technology in exchange for a subscription fee -
Tablets: iPad, the household device
Despite the explosion of e-commerce, the laptop and desktop were never really suited to the average non-technical user and the phone was just too small. Steve Jobs created the perfect product for them. -
Entrepreneurs: The Lean Startup
Eric Ries' book which promotes experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development has been an inspiration to the next generation of tech entrepreneurs
