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Reuters Agency established
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Telephone
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The Mundaneum
[www.mundaneum.org](www.mundaneum.org/en)Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine create a bibliographical system with 12 million index cards -
Paul Beran - Packet Switching
Paul Bara on WikipediaPacket Switching on WikipediaPaul Beran “On Distributed Communications” Developing packet switching / Independently Donald Davies also develops packet switching -
First message sent over ARPANET
First message sent over the ARPANET at 10:30PM on 29 October 1969 by Charley Kline, supervised by Leonard Kleinrock. The message itself was simply the word “login”. The “l” and the “o” transmitted but then the system crashed. So the first message on ARPANET was “lo”. -
Bell Labs Unix
www.unix.orgUnix was conceived at Bell Labs. Its purpose was to make better use of mainframe computers and to have them serve many PC’s at one time -
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Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf on WikipediaVint Cerf works at Stanford University (1972- 1976), does research on packet network interconnection protocols and co-designed the DoD TCP/IP protocol suite with Bob Kahn -
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Microcomputer programmes transmitted by 'phone
Christensen & Suess build a modem to transmit microcomputer programs by phone to avoid travelling in the winter in Chicago -
FidoNet
www.fidonet.org1983 Fido BBS and then the FidoNet ‘mailer’ connects messages -
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Consumer access to the internet
Consumer access to the internet via dial-up connections using the phone network, introduced in the 1980s/early 1990s -
World Wide Web
CERNTim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. -
Internet Society
www.internetsociety.orgThe Internet Society foundedIndependent international non-profitorganisation to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education and policy around the world -
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Cable modems introduced
Cable modems introduced in late1990s and broadband via cable and DSL (digital subscriber line) begins to replace dial up in the home -
Jenni first accesses the www
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Facebook
Facebook on WikipediaFacebook is an online social networking service. Its name comes from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some American university administrations to help students get to know one another. -
70 million web servers
As of August 2005, there were over 70 million web servers. -
Twitter
Twitter on WikipediaTwitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters. -
Wikileaks
WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Their goal is to bring important news and information to the public. They provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to wikileaks journalists (our electronic drop box). One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth. -
iPhone
iPhoneApple's smartphone. Most web browsing on smartphones takes place on the iPhone. -
Over 135 million web servers
As of September 2007, there wereover 135 million web servers -
Android
Android is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance: a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. First phone in 2008. (Wikipedia) -
Term MOOC used
What is a MOOC?The first MOOCs emerged from the open educational resources (OER) movement. The term MOOC was coined in 2008 by Dave Cormier of the University of Prince Edward Island and Senior Research Fellow Bryan Alexander of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education in response to a course called Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (also known as CCK08). -
Weibo
Weibo on WikipediaSina Weibo is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website. Akin to a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook, it is one of the most popular sites in China, in use by well over 30% of Internet users, with a market penetration similar to what Twitter has established in the USA. It was launched by SINA Corporation on 14 August 2009, and has 503 million registered users as of Dec 2012. About 100 million messages are posted each day on Sina Weibo. (Wikipedia)
