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Internet History
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Vannevar Bush and Memex
Vannevar Bush publishes his idea of the first automated information management system in an article called "As We May Think", calling it "Memex". -
Cybernetics
Norbert Wiener develops the field of cybernetics and publishes his book "Cybernetics", developing the field from the feedback principle that was used in missile guidance systems. -
Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference
John McCarthy invited many researchers in advanced fields to Dartmouth in New Hampshire to discuss the subject of Artificial Intelligence. (Photo is of John McCarthy) -
ARPA
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, triggering President Dwight Eisenhower to create the ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) to regain the technological lead in the arms race. -
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World Wide Web History
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Douglas Engelbart Develops the Mouse, GUI, and First Hypertext System
Douglas invented the Mouse, GUI, and first working hypertext system, called the NLS (also the second computer system connected to the ARPANET). He demonstrated the NLS at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in 1968 -
Marshall McLuhan and the Global Village
Marshall McLuhan was the first person to popularize the concept of a global village in his book "Understanding Media". -
Ted Nelson Discovers Hypertext
Ted Nelson invented hypertext, which is the concept behind links on the Web, and influenced several developers of the Internet, most noticably Tim Berners-Lee -
Fall Joint Computer Conference
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ARPANET
The first wide-area packet switching network, the "Eve" network of what evolved into the Internet. Originally created by the IPTO (Information Processing Techniques Office) under the sponsorship of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) -
Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web with help from Robert Cailliau and other scientists at CERN. -
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Establishes First N.A. Web Site
Paul Kunz went to visit CERN and immediatly loved the idea of the Web. He brought back a copy of Berners-Lee's first Web browser and server with him and installed the server on the laboratory's IBM Virtual Machine operating system. The server went live on December 12th, 1991. -
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
The W3C was created in 1994 to oversee the development of web technology standards.
