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Time before www
Vannevar Bush writes an article in Atlantic Monthly about a photo-electrical-mechanical device called a Memex, for memory extension, which could make and follow links between documents on microfiche [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex] -
Back to the 60s
Doug Engelbart prototypes an "oNLine System" (NLS) which does hypertext browsing editing, email, and so on. He invents the mouse for this purpose. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_(computer_system)] Ted Nelson coins the word Hypertext in A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext] Andy van Dam and others build the Hypertext Editing System and FRESS in 1967. -
Enquire - the ancestor?
While consulting for CERN June-December of 1980, Tim Berners-Lee writes a notebook program, "Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything", which allows links to be made between arbitrary nodes. Each node had a title, a type, and a list of bidirectional typed links. "ENQUIRE" ran on Norsk Data machines under SINTRAN-III.
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THE proposal for an information management system,
The World Wide Web begins as a CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) project called ENQUIRE, initiated by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee. Other names considered for the project include “The Information Mesh” and “The Mine of Information.” [https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web] -
YOU'VE GOT MAIL
AOL launches its Instant Messenger chat service and begins welcoming users with the iconic greeting “You’ve got mail!”
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1990
42% of American adults have used a computer. -
This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER DOWN!
World’s first website and server go live at CERN, running on Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer.
Tim Berners-Lee develops the first Web browser WorldWideWeb. -
Coffee?
Researchers rig up a live shot of a coffee pot so they could tell from their computer screens when a fresh pot had been brewed. Later connected to the World Wide Web, it becomes the first webcam. -
the first photo
The term “surfing the internet” is coined and popularized.
Tim Berners-Lee posts the first photo, of the band “Les Horribles Cernettes,” on the Web.
The line-mode browser launches. It is the first readily accessible browser for the World Wide Web. -
The New York Times
The New York Times writes about the Web browser Mosaic and the World Wide Web for the first time. “Think of it as a map to the buried treasures of the Information Age.” -
smartphones?
Nokia releases the Nokia 9000 Communicator, the first cellphone with internet capabilities. -
Google, Netflix and Mars relation!
Millions “visit Mars – on the internet” – the Jet Propulsion Lab allows people to watch the Sojourner rover landing and exploration of Mars. The broadcast generates about 40 million to 45 million hits each day.pathfinder_internet [https://www.nasa.gov/specials/pathfinder20/] Netflix launches as a company that sends DVDs to homes via mail. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJMOIWIXxhI] Google.com registers as a domain.
[https://www.pcsteps.com/4694-the-history-of-the-google-logo/] -
Napster 4 ever?
MP3 downloading service Napster launches, overloading high-speed networks in college dormitories. Many colleges ban the service and it is later shut down for enabling the illegal sharing of music files. -
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is founded as a "multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia", to which anyone can contribute, and which anyone can access. By 2014 the English-language version has about 4.5million entries. [https://www.wikipedia.org/] -
Friendster - The time before FACEBOOK!
Social networking site Friendster.com launches, but is quickly overtaken by Facebook. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendster] -
iTunes, Skype and LinkedIn
Apple launches the iTunes Music Store with 200,000 songs at 99¢ each. The store sells one million songs in its first week. [https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes] Skype, a voice-over-IP calling and instant messaging service, launches and quickly becomes a verb, as in “Skype me.” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype] Professional networking site LinkedIn launches. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LinkedIn] -
China: "block citizens' access to 'subversive' material"
The Chinese government begins to pursue several initiatives to counter the potentially subversive influence of the open web, including this system of web filters that allows the authorities to block individual web pages, whole websites, or any page referencing a particular term. [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/apr/24/chinathemedia.digitalmedia] -
2004
11% of American internet users follow the returns on election night online. [http://www.pewinternet.org/2005/03/06/the-internet-and-the-2004-election/] Mark Zuckerberg launches thefacebook.com. 1,200 Harvard students sign up within the first 24 hours. [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/jul/25/media.newmedia] Mozilla releases Firefox [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/history/details/] -
Valentine's Day Gift to WWW
YouTube is founded on Valentine’s Day.
The first video, an explanation of what’s cool about elephants, is uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim on April 23. Google acquires the company a year later.
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Tweet
Twitter launches. Founder Jack Dorsey sends the first tweet: “just setting up my twttr” [https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854] -
e-voting
Apple releases its first iPhone, priced at $499 for 4GB and $599 for 8G. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)]
Estonia becomes the world’s first country to use internet voting in a parliamentary election. [https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/i-voting/] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Estonia] -
Chrome Web Browser
Google releases the Chrome Web browser.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome] Apple launches its App Store with 552 applications. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS)] -
Is it real?
Microsoft’s Bing search engine launches. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(search_engine)] The Web is transfixed by the tale of a six-year-old boy flying over Colorado in a weather balloon. The story later proves to be a hoax. [https://youtu.be/lSC71V7bUl4] -
Time for more photos and Qs
Social photo-sharing sites Pinterest and Instagram launch. Ex-Facebook employees launch user-based question and answer site Quora. -
Hall of Fame
The Internet Society founds the Internet Hall of Fame to “celebrate people who bring the internet to life.” [https://www.internethalloffame.org/] -
top secret data on air!!
Former CIA employee and NSA contractor Edward Snowden turns over thousands of classified documents to media organizations, exposing a top-secret government data surveillance program. -
Google Assistant
Google Assistant is an artificial intelligence-powered[2] virtual assistant developed by Google that is primarily available on mobile and smart home devices. Unlike the company's previous virtual assistant, Google Now, Google Assistant can engage in two-way conversations. Assistant initially debuted in May 2016 as part of Google's messaging app Allo, and its voice-activated speaker Google Home. [https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Assistant] -
The year for chatbot industrialisation?
Nowadays we have realised the capabilities of a chatbot, the fact that they are good only for the things that they have been programmed for and the fact that they don’t always generalise well. This leads to creation of single bots which can do one thing good and leading future development to a chatbot management or chatbot market place such as the one created by Amazon or by Google. [https://medium.com/@cristianpb/the-year-for-chatbot-industrialisation-a1cfbfa6391e] -
Casa de PAPEL
University of Peloponnese (nicknamed PAPEL) students make this project!!!
