Sunday, November 11, 2007
History of new media
Vinton Cerf, in front of a PC. 2005.
1642. Pascal's calculator.
1674. Leibniz's machine.
1835. Morse. Invented by Samuel Morse.
1837. Telegraph. By William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1849. Boolean algebra. George Boole (UK) invents Boolean algebra
1876. Bell's telephone. Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
1889. Hollerith's tabulating machine.
1896. Herman Hollerith founds a company that would later become IBM.
1911. IBM. Tabulating Machine Company of the US becomes International Business Machines.
1926. Television by John Logie Baird
1943. Turing's Colossus. Turing conceives of the code-breaking machine Colossus.
1944. Hitler's Enigma. Hitler uses his cutting-edge hardware,
1947. Transistor. William Shockley and others at Bell Labs invent the transistor.
1948. According to the OED, the first computer, the Manchester Mark I, is installed at Manchester University.
1950s. Interactive graphics. JCR Licklider has a chance encounter Wes Clark at MIT's Lincoln Lab.
1954. FORTRAN. The first high level programming language, FORTRAN.
1958. ARPA
1960. The first e-mail programme called Mailbox is installed on a time-sharing computer at MIT
1960. Satellite telephone
1974. Ethernet, a protocol for many local networks, an outgrowth of Harvard student Bob Metcalfe's dissertation on "Packet Networks."
1984. Domain Name Server (DNS) introduced.
1984. CD-ROM.
1984. "Cyberspace" . William Gibson publishes Neuromancer, in which he coins the word cyberspace.
1984. Apple Macintosh. Apple introduces the Macintosh with mouse and window interface.
1991. World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee.
1991. E-commerce.
1995. The Vatican comes on-line.
1998. La Fête de l'Internet, a country-wide Internet fest, is held in France 20-21 March
If you want a developped timeline go to this website.
