WWW-VL: HISTORY: INTERNET & W3
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The WWW-VL: History: Central Catalogue
WWW-VL: History:
Networking includes Internet 2.0, Semantic Web
WWW-VL: History: Software
WWW-VL: History: W3 Search
Engines Internet search engines world-wide
WWW-VL: Website Tools
- Research Tools
- Maps
- Encyclopedias
- Reference
- Bibliography
- Bibliography including link pages
- Materials
- Electronic Books
- On-Line Texts and Document Collections
- On-Line Journals
- Archives
- Biography
- Collective Biography
- Individual Biographies
- Organizations
- Research Centers
- Museums
- Associations and Societies
- Instruction
- Chronology
- History
- General
- Personal Computing
- The Internet
- The Computer Industry
- Prehistory
- 17th Century
- 19th Century
- Beginnings
- 1939 Atanasoff-Berry Digital Computer
- 1940's
- Alan Turing and Colossus
- 1946 15 Feb ENIAC
- 1947 Development of the Transistor by John Bardeen, Walter
Brattain, and William Shockley
- 1948 21 June Manchester University Mark I
- 1949 CSIR Mark I and EDSAC
- 1950's
- 1950 Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) Publishes The Human Use of
Human Beings
- 1951
- 1952
- 1953
- 1954
- 1957
- 1958 The Development of the Integrated Circuit (IC)
- 1960s
- 1970s
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Timeline of the 1970's
- 1971 15 November The Intel 4004 4-bit CPU
1972
1974
- 1975
- 1977 Virtual Explosion of Computer Manufacturers
- 1978
- 1979
- 1980s
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Timeline of the 1980's
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- Bill
Joy, Sun Microsystems, Why the future doesn't need us
- Bill Joy,
Sun Microsystems co-founder, talks about markets, science, and
technology.
- John Gage, Chief
Researcher, Sun Microsystems, Inc., "The Internet is not a thing, a place,
a single technology, or a mode of governance. It is an agreement."
- 1983
- The
Lisa Computer
: History of the Lisa Computer, by Larry Tesler,
Stagecast Software [former Xerox PARC researcher and Apple chief scientist
explains the impact of the Lisa, object software, GUI, computer mouse]
- Enlisting
User help In Software Design, Larry Tesler, Apple Computer, 1983
[an inventor of object-oriented software, GUI at PARC; archived copy]
- T/Maker Company, early software graphics company
- 1983-1985 The Macintosh Revolution & Graphical User Interfaces
(GUI)
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- 1989
- 1990s
- WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a
HyperText Project , by Tim Berners-Lee, 12 November 1990, W3C
- Timeline
of the 1990's
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- The History Network, 23 Feb 93, Thomas Zielke, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universitaet; Don Mabry, Mississippi State University; Lynn Nelson, University of Kansas; et al
- February
Release of LYNX, first Text Browser , Michael Grobe [Invented at University of Kansas]
- Michael
Grobe: Web-related activities [with Lou Montulli and Charles Rezac
built a distributed hypertext system]
- Lou Montulli, wikipedia.org
- Lou Montulli, Shutterfly V.P. of Engineering [co-founder of Netscape]
-
February Release of MOSAIC web browser for X-Windows
- Marc Andreesen MOSAIC co-inventor, Netscape founder
- HNSource was established on 6 March 1993; it became WWW-VL History on 21 September 1993 and the first directory of content on Tim Berners-Lee's WWW-Virtual Library. Dr. Lynn H. Nelson, original author, University of Kansas
- Iterative User-Interface Design, by Jakob Nielsen IEEE Computer Society November 1993
- 1994
- 1995
- 1996
- 1997
- 26 June Reno
vs. ACLU [the "Child On-Line Protection Act" violates 1st amendment
guarantees of free speech.]
- 1998
- "Labortory Secrets"; Computer pioneers Jim Gray, Gordon Bell head a little known S.F. team for Microsoft
- 1999
- RSS History, by Dave Winer, the designer of most of the formats; Technology at Harvard Law
- 2000s
- 2003
- 2004
- World Wide Web 10th Anniversary, www.w3c.org
- Cerf's Up: by
Vinton G. Cerf [2004 marks the 30th anniversary of the first paper
on the Internet - the IEEE Transactions on Communications, May 1974, "A
Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" by Vinton Cerf and Robert
Kahn.]
- 20th Anniversary of the Apple Macintosh Computer, DigiBarn Computer Museum, Online Exhibit of Rare MacArtifacts
- MIT World: The Akamai Story: From Theory to Practice, Tom Leighton, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Akamai; Professor of Applied Mathematics, MIT [video stream]
- TerraServer-USA, MicroSoft Research Worldwide Maping Project, USGS sponsor [Gordon Bell and Jim Gray project]
- 2005
- Hall of Fellows Computer History Museum, Moutain View, CA [from Fran Allen to Konrad Zuse, the prime inventors of computing]
- 2006
- Topical
- Network History
- The Early Networks
- The Internet
- BITNET
- World-Wide Web
- History
of the WWW CERN, 1989
- A Little History of the
World Wide Web, W3C
-
A Short History of the Web, Robert Cailliau, W3 Consortium
Paris, 2 November 1995
- The
World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal History, by Tim Berner-Lee,
W3 Inventor, W3C, MIT, Cambridge, MA
- The World
Wide Web - Past Present and Future Exploring Universality; Tim
Berner-Lee, W3C, 2002
- Applications
- The Future
- Future Technology Trends, by Ray Trygstad, Illinois Institute of Technology
- The
UCLA Internet Report: "Surveying the Digital Future" 2003
[.pdf]
-
XML and the Second-Generation Web Scientific American
- Gordon Bell, MyLifeBits Project, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center Media Presence Group [Gordon invented minicomputers, PDP, VAX- type -- now storing his whole life on digital]
- Center for History and
New Media George Mason University
-
UNESCO Forum on Culture and the New Media Technologies
- SuperComputing
2003 Technical Overview, Phoenix, AZ, 15-21 Nov. 2003
- WSIS: The World Summit on the
Information Society, First Phase: Geneva, 10-12 December 2003,
UNESCO
- Internet Arbitration WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, Geneva
- Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague
- Culture
and the New Media Technologies, by Sally Jane Norman
- Anita Jones, Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Computer Science, University of Virginia [formerly, Director, Defense Research and Engineering
US Department of Defense]
- MIT Media Lab,
Cambridge, MA [always a fun place to visit: see the future now]
- MIT World Video stream lectures
- Marvin Minsky Home
Page, MIT Media Lab and MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA
[a father of
AI, mentor to Danny Hillis; and author, The Society of Mind]
- W.
Daniel Hillis, Applied Minds, Inc. [inventor, Connection
Machine]
- Patrick Henry
Winston MIT [currently Genesis Group for understanding
intelligence; formerly Director, MIT AI Lab]
- Rodney A. Brooks, Professor of Robotics MIT, former Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
- McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT [named for Patrick McGovern, founder of ComputerWorld, and IDG Publishing]
- AAM: Small Museums & Technology, 2008 resource list
Related WWW-VL History Sites
WWW-VL: History was established as HNSource (Kansas History Gateway) on 6 March 1993.
Site maintained by George Laughead, manager, United States History Index.
Thanks to Dr. Lynn H. Nelson, original author, who explains "Prima
del Web: gli sviluppi della storia online" ("Before the Web: the early
development of History on-line"). Updated: 16 May 2008
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