1438 - Gutenberg comes up with the printing press 1837 - invention of the daguerrotype 1837 - the telegraph is patented 1876 - the telephone is patented 1888 - the adding machine is patented 1888 - the gramophone is invented 1893 - kinetoscope for showing moving pictures is patented 1900 - photocopying machine is invented 1901 - the first transatlantic wireless radio message is sent 1903 - Wright brothers fly around Kittyhawk 1908 - Model T Ford is introduced 1921 - local telephone dialing service is offered 1926 - first public demonstration of television 1946 - ENIAC, first computer, comes online 1947 - the transistor is invented 1951 - UNIVAC, the first commercial-use computer, is introduced 1956 - the first transatlantic telephone cable is laid 1957 - Sputnik is lauched by the USSR 1957 - the US creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency 1958 - the integrated circuit is invented 1959 - computers using transistors rather than vacuum tubes are smaller, faster, and less expensive 1962*- Paul Baran of RAND suggests a packet switching network 1963 - first demostration of home video recorder 1965 - Ted Nelson coins the term "hypertext" 1967 - IBM builds the first floppy disk 1968 - Intel is founded 1969*- ARPANET is formed 1969 - Intel 4004, the world's first microprocessor, is invented 1969 - Neil Armstrong walks on the moon, 100 million watch on TV 1969 - Number of hosts: 4 1969 - Xerox open the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) 1970 - the compact disk is invented 1971 - Number of hosts: 23 1971*- Ray Tomlinson invents an email program 1972 - Atari is founded 1973 - Ethernet is invented 1974 - Bolt, Beranek, and Newman opens Telenet, a commercial version of ARPANET 1974 - Number of hosts: 62 1974*- Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn invent Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) 1975 - Micro-Soft is founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen (it later becomes Microsoft) 1976 - Queen Elizabeth sends an email message 1977 - Apple Computer is incorporated 1977 - Number of hosts: 111 1977 - TRS-80 is introduced by Tandy 1977 - Visicalc software is published 1978 - Epson's MX-80 dot matrix printer 1978 - Microsoft sales reach US$1 million 1979 - Hayes introduces a 300 baud modem for the Apple II 1979 - Space Invaders 1979*- Usenet News is started at Duke University 1980 - Zork 1981 - BITNET ("Because It's Time") is started 1981 - Commodore's VIC-20 1981 - CSNET ("Computer and Science") is started 1981 - Number of hosts: 213 1981 - Silicon Graphics is founded 1981 - Sinclair ZX-81 1981 - the IBM PC is introduced 1982 - Adobe is founded 1982 - Compaq is founded 1982 - Lotus is founded 1982 - Number of hosts: 235 1982 - PC clones are introduced 1982 - Sun Microsystems is founded 1982 - the first commercial mouse for the PC 1982 - Time Magazine names the microcomputer as "Man" of the Year 1983 - Apple released Lisa, the first PC with graphical user interface (GUI) 1983 - Bell Labs designs C++ 1983 - Borland International is founded 1983 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released 1983 - Number of hosts: 562 1983 - Philips and Sony develop the CD-ROM 1984 - HP releases the 300dpi Laserjet 1984 - Number of hosts: 1024 1984 - the Macintosh is released 1984 - William Gibson coins the term "cyberspace" in his book Neuromancer 1985 - Nintendo Entertainment System 1985 - Number of hosts: 1961 1985 - Pagemaker 1985 - Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link is started 1986 - Backbone speed is 56 Kbps 1986 - NSFNET (high-speed backbone) is created 1986 - Number of hosts: 5089 1987 - Apple introduces Hypercard 1987 - Number of hosts breaks 10,000 1987 - Number of hosts: 28,174 1988 - Backbone speed is 1.544 Mbps (T1) 1988 - Computer Emergency Repsonse Team is formed in response to the worm 1988*- November 1 - Internet Worm causes havoc on the Net 1988 - Number of hosts: 56,000 1989 - Number of hosts breaks 100,000 1989 - Number of hosts: 159,000 1990 - ARPANET pulls the plug 1990 - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is created 1990 - Number of hosts: 313,000 1991 - Backbone speed is 44.736 Mbps (T3) 1991 - Gopher is created at the University of Minnesota 1991 - Number of hosts: 617,000 1991 - Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is released by Philip Zimmerman 1992*- CERN and Tim Berners-Lee demonstrate the World Wide Web (WWW) 1992 - Number of hosts breaks 1,000,000 1992 - Number of hosts: 1,136,000 1993*- Mosaic hits the net 1993 - Number of hosts: 2,056,000 1993 - Number of websites: 623 1993 - the White House comes online 1993 - WWW annual growth is more than 340,000% 1994 - First Virtual is the first cyberbank online 1994 - Number of hosts: 3,864,000 1994 - Number of websites: 10,022 1994 - the great green-card-lottery "spam" incident 1994 - the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) allows TCP/IP over phone lines 1995*- August 9 - Netscape goes public with the 3rd largest NASDAQ IPO in history 1995 - Communications Decency Act (CDA) is passed and signed 1995*- Internet users worldwide protest the CDA by turned their web pages black 1995 - Microsoft jumps into the Internet market and thus begin the "browser wars" 1995 - Number of hosts: 6,642,000 1995 - Number of websites: 100,000 1995 - RealAudio is introduced 1995 - the Java programming language is released 1995 - traditional online services (Compuserve, AOL, etc.) allow users to connect to the Internet 1996 - AOL suffers a 19-hour outage 1996 - Number of hosts: 12,881,000 1996 - Number of websites: 650,000 1996 - Yahoo! goes public to much fanfare 1997 - the legality of the CDA is argued before the US Supreme Court * = 1 of the TOP TEN SIGNIFICANT INTERNET EVENTS