The Internet

By marti338
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    Printing Press

    Printing Press
    Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press

  • First Computer Designed

    First Computer Designed
    Charles Baggage designs the first programmable mechanical computer.

  • First Computer Programmer

    First Computer Programmer
    Ada Lovelace is the first computer programmer.

  • Keypunch Machine

    Keypunch Machine
    Herman Hollerith invents the keypunch machine that helped launch information processing.

  • Differential Analyzer

    Differential Analyzer
    Vannevar Bush builds the first differential analyzer which is used to analyze differential equations.

  • First Electronic Digital Computer

    First Electronic Digital Computer
    Alan Turning designs first electronic digital computer.

  • Unimate

    Unimate
    George Devol creates first digitally operated and programmed robot called Unimate to work on assembly lines.

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    Larry Roberts and Thomas Merril connect a computer in Massachusetts to a computer In California using dial-up phone line to create the first computer network.

  • Internet Protocol

    Internet Protocol
    Robert Kahn introduces The Internet Protocol to the public at the International Computer Communication Conference in 1972.

  • First Email

    First Email
    Ray Tomlinson sends the first email message and decides to use "@" as the electronic locator symbol.

  • Desk Sized Computers

    Desk Sized Computers
    IBM and Hewlett-Packard create the first desk sized programmable computers.

  • Internet

    Internet
    Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalalm and Carl Sunshine first use the world "Internet".

  • Apple Computers

    Apple Computers
    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak create the first Apple computers

  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Wed. WWW 2005

  • Web Technology Available

    Web Technology Available
    European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) makes web technology available to the world at not cost to any specific party.

  • Telecommunications Act of 1996

    Telecommunications Act of 1996
    The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is passed to promote competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality services for American telecommunications consumers and encourage the rapid development of new telecommunications technologies

  • Google

    Google
    Larry Page and Sergey Brin invent Google

  • Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998

    Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
    The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or DMCA) of 1998 introduced to American copyright law prohibitions against the circumvention of technological measures that control access to or use of copyrighted works.

  • Tor

    Tor
    The US Navel Academy releases Tor in 2005 to provide a way for users to be anonymous online.

  • Bitcon

    Bitcon
    Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, introduced in 2009, that can be transferred on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network and is untraceable.