From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Computer / Internet Culture Outline

Logical Machines for the Production of Knowledge
(1305)

Possibly the Earliest References to a Fictional Device that Resembles a Modern Computer
(1726)

The First Use of "Bug" in the Context of Computing
(September 9, 1945)

Cybernetics
(1948)

The First Popular Book on Electronic Computers
(1949)

UNIVAC Predicts the Election of Dwight D. Eisenhower
(November 4, 1952)

Perhaps the First Computer-Controlled Aesthetic System
(1953)

Alan Turing Dies
(June 7, 1954)

Satirizing the Role of Automation in Eliminating Jobs, and Librarians
(1957)

First Formal Definition of Hacker
(June 1959)

The PDP-1: Programmed Data Processor, Not Called a Computer
(December 1959)

"Computer Graphics"
(1960)

Technical Basis for the Development of Phreaking
(November 1960)

"Dial F for Frankenstein"
(1961)

Coining the Term "Computer Science"
(1961)

Spacewar, the First Computer Game for a Commercially Available Computer
(1962)

First Use of the Term "Hacker" in the Context of Computing
(November 20, 1963)

Origin of the Concept of Technological Singularity
(1965)

Possibly the First Personal Computer Club
(1966)

"2001: A Space Odyssey"
(1968)

The First Message Sent Over the ARPANET
(October 29, 1969)

Xerox PARC
(1970)

Phreaker Underground Telephone System Culture
(1971)

The First Computer Virus
(1971)

The @ in Email
(March 1971)

The Earliest Coin-Operated Computer or Video Game
(September 1971)

The First Commercially Sold Coin-Operated Video Game
(November 1971)

SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums
(December 7, 1972)

Probably the World's First Online Community
(1973)

First Public Computerized Bulletin Board System
(1973)

The First Networked 3D Multi-User First Person Shooter Game
(1973 – 1974)

The Term "Mainframe"
(1974)

Manifesto of the Microcomputer Revolution
(1974)

Byte Magazine
(1975)

The First Computer Text Adventure Game
(1975 – 1976)

The Warez Scene
(Circa 1975)

"The Mythical Man-Month"
(1975)

Home Pong
(1975)

The Utah Teapot
(1975)

The First Personal Computer Offered for Sale
(January 1975)

The Homebrew Computer Club Holds its First Meeting
(Circa April 1975)

The First Journal on Software for Personal Computers
(January 1976)

Probably the First Personal Computer Conference
(March 1976)

First Multi-Player Computer Games
(1977)

Zork
(1977 – 1979)

The First Intentional Spam
(May 1, 1977)

The First Dial-UP CBBS
(February 16, 1978)

The First Graphical Computer Adventure Game
(1979 – 1980)

Origins of the Computer History Museum
(September 1979)

Pac-Man
(May 22, 1980)

The First Computer Virus Spread by Floppy Disk
(1982)

William Gibson Coins the Word Cyberspace
(1982)

Origins of the Smiley on the Internet
(September 19, 1982)

Free Software
(September 23, 1983)

Cyberpunk
(November 1983)

Coining the Term Computer Virus
(November 10, 1983)

Cyberspace
(1984)

2600: The Hacker Quarterly
(1984)

Perhaps the first Underground "Ezine"
(June 1984)

Avatar in the Context of Online Representation of a User
(1985)

The GNU Manifesto
(1985)

Nintendo's Super Mario Bros.
(1985)

One of the First Online Communities
(April 1, 1985)

Cyberpunk
(1986)

The First IBM PC Compatible Virus
(January 1986)

The Hacker Manifesto
(January 8, 1986)

Boing-Boing
(1988)

An Internet-Based Hypertext System
(March 1989)

Berners-Lee Plans the World Wide Web
(November 12, 1990)

The First Web Page
(November 13, 1990)

The First Web Browser and Web Server
(December 25, 1990)

The First Webcam
(1991)

First Release of the First Web Browser
(March 1991)

The Gopher Protocol
(September 1991)

The First Web Server in North America
(December 12, 1991)

The First Image Posted to the Web
(1992)

Visions of a Metaverse
(June 1992)

The Web's First and Longest Continuously Running Blog
(1993)

The Singularity
(January 1993)

Wired 1.01
(March 1993)

The First Commercial Website with the First Online Advertising
(May 1993)

From Webspace to Cyberspace
(1994)

FishCam: The Oldest Nearly Continuously Operational Webcam
(1994)

One of the Earliest Guided Tours of the Web
(January 1994)

The First Internet Cafe
(March 12 – March 13, 1994)

PlayStation
(December 3, 1994)

The First Wiki
(March 25, 1995)

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
(1996)

First Recorded Use of the Term, Phishing
(January 2, 1996)

The First Full-Time Online Webcam Girl
(April 1996 – 2003)

IBM Deep Blue Defeats Gary Kasparov
(May 11, 1997)

The Cluetrain Manifesto
(1998)

"You've Got Mail"
(1998)

The Matrix
(1999)

Nigerian Letter Scams Move to the Internet
(1999)

Napster
(June 1999)

Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
(November 29, 1999)

An Injunction Against Napter to Prevent Trading of Copyrighted Music
(March 5, 2001)

Xbox
(November 15, 2001)

Minority Report
(2002)

Machinima
(2002)

Second Life
(2003)

Grand Text Auto
(May 2003)

MySpace
(August 2003)

Facebook
(February 4, 2004)

Over 102 Million Units Shipped
(March 31, 2005)

Wikimania!
(August 4 – August 8, 2005)

The Million Dollar Homepage
(August 25, 2005)

The Most Viewed Video on YouTube
(April 2006)

Will it Blend?
(October 2006)

"Anshe Chung Becomes First Virtual World Millionaire"
(November 26, 2006)

More than 110,000,000 Active Users
(October 2008)

First Reported Case of ZZZ-Mailing
(December 15, 2008)

"The Data-Driven Life"
(April 20, 2010)

The 2010 Social Networking "World Map"
(August 5, 2010)