From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Computers & Society Outline

Funding Cut Off for the Difference Engine No. 1
(1842)

One of the Most Remarkable Human Computers
(1856)

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
(1864)

300 Clerks Reviewing 2,500,000 Policies with 24 Calculators
(1877)

The Social Security Program Creates a Giant Data-Processing Challenge
(1935 – 1936)

The ENIAC Meets the Public
(February 14, 1946)

Cybernetics
(1948)

The First Computer that Could Modify a Stored Program
(January 1948)

The First Popular Book on Electronic Computers
(1949)

Automated Detection and Interception System
(1949)

"Can Man Build a Superman?"
(January 23, 1950)

Simon, the First Personal Computer
(November 1950)

The First Journal on Electronic Computing
(October 1952)

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

First Widely Read English Book on Electronic Computing
(1953)

The First Report on the Application of Electronic Computers to Business
(June 1953)

Coining the Phrase Social Network
(1954)

First Computer to be Sold to a Non-Governmental Customer in the U.S.
(1954)

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

6000 Computers in U.S., Out of 10,000 Worldwide
(1960)

The First Electronic Learning System
(1960)

Man-Computer Symbiosis
(March 1960)

Computerized Stock-Quotation System
(1961)

Coining the Term "Computer Science"
(1961)

The Largest Archive of Digital Social Science Data
(1962)

Augmenting Human Intellect
(October 1962)

The Information Processing Techniques Office
(October 1, 1962)

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

The First Online Reservation System
(1964)

Social Security Numbers as Identifiers
(1964)

"Information Overload" Coined
(1964)

Early Home Computer?
(1965)

Invasion of Privacy by Computers
(1965)

Origin of the Concept of Technological Singularity
(1965)

Possibly the First Personal Computer Club
(1966)

The First Hand-Held Electronic Calculator
(1967)

Computer Privacy
(March 1967)

Protecting Security in a Networked Environment
(Circa May – September 1967)

Features of the Future ARPANET
(1968)

"2001: A Space Odyssey"
(1968)

The First Commercial Online Service
(1969)

First First Digital Sampler in the First Digital Music Studio
(Circa 1969)

Problem with the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Nearly Prevents the First Moon Walk
(July 21, 1969)

Xerox PARC
(1970)

First Systematic Review of Computer Security Issues
(February 1970)

Probably the World's First Online Community
(1973)

First Public Computerized Bulletin Board System
(1973)

Code of Fair Information Practice
(July 1973)

Privacy Act of 1974
(May 1974)

200,000 Computers are Operating in the U. S.
(1975)

Byte Magazine
(1975)

The First Personal Computer Offered for Sale
(January 1975)

Probably the First Personal Computer Conference
(March 1976)

The First Personal Computer Sold as a Fully Assembled Product
(1977)

The First Intentional Spam
(May 1, 1977)

The Network Nation
(1978)

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

Origins of the Computer History Museum
(September 1979)

The First Computer Virus Spread by Floppy Disk
(1982)

William Gibson Coins the Word Cyberspace
(1982)

The "Trash" 80: The First Laptop?
(1983)

6,000,000 Personal Computers are Sold in the U.S.
(1983)

Free Software
(September 23, 1983)

Cyberspace
(1984)

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

The Free Software Foundation
(October 1985)

Cyberpunk
(1986)

25,000,000 PCs Have Been Sold in the U.S.
(1987)

Foundation of the First Commercial ISP
(May 12, 1987)

"Toward a National Research Telecommunications Network"
(November 1987)

The First Computer-Animated Film to Win an Academy Award
(1988)

The First Operational Online Antiquarian Bookselling Site
(1988)

Boing-Boing
(1988)

The First Computer Worm to Attract Wide Attention
(November 2, 1988)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is Founded
(1990)

Coalition for Networked Information
(1990)

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)

"Clearing the Way for Electronic Commerce"
(1991)

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
(March 26 – March 28, 1991)

Berners-Lee Makes Web Server and Web Browser Software Available at No Cost
(August 6, 1991)

Cyberspace Law
(October 29, 1991)

The First Image Posted to the Web
(1992)

There are 50 Web Servers on the Internet
(1992)

341,634 Percent Growth Rate on the Internet
(1993)

Perhaps the First Law Review Symposium Dedicated to Cyberspace
(1993)

Only About 2000 People in China Use the Internet
(1993)

There are 250 Web Servers on the Internet
(1993)

The First Tablet Computer with Wireless Connectivity
(April 1993)

CERN Releases Rights to World Wide Web Software
(April 30, 1993)

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

There are 2500 Web Servers and 10,000 Websites
(1994)

EPIC
(1994)

Selling Wine without Bottles
(1994)

From Webspace to Cyberspace
(1994)

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

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

Commercial Spaming Starts with the "Green Card Spam"
(April 12, 1994)

Probably the First For-Profit Social Networking Site
(1995)

There are Approximately 73,500 Servers; WWW is Generally Equated with the Internet
(1995)

Amazon.com is Founded
(July 1995)

The Beginning of the "Dot-Com Bubble"
(August 9, 1995)

eBay
(September 1995)

There are 100,000 Websites
(1996)

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
(1996)

sixdegrees.com: An Early Social Networking Site
(1997)

There are 1,000,000 Websites
(April 1997)

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

The Cluetrain Manifesto
(1998)

"You've Got Mail"
(1998)

The Digital Millenium Copyright Act
(October 12, 1998)

Computers Have Not Caused a Reduction in Paper Usage or Printing
(1999)

The Matrix
(1999)

Napster
(June 1999)

Massive Denial-of-Service Attack
(2000)

The Size of the Internet in 2000
(2000)

Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
(2000)

Over 10,000,000 Domain Names Have Been Registered
(February 2000)

Climax of the Dot-Com Bubble
(March 10, 2000)

There are 20,000,000 Websites on the Internet
(September 2000)

Safeguarding of Internet Security
(December 28, 2000)

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of Commons in a Connected World
(2001)

Conflicts between Androids and Men
(2001)

The Wikipedia Begins
(January 15, 2001)

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

Size of the Internet in 2002
(2002)

Minority Report
(2002)

How Much Information?
(2003)

Second Life
(2003)

Privacy of Medical Records and Electronic Data
(April 14, 2003)

MySpace
(August 2003)

Metroblogging
(November 2003)

World Summit on the Information Society
(December 10 – December 12, 2003)

The First U.S. Standards for Sending Commercial E-Mail
(December 16, 2003)

800,000,000 People are Using the Internet
(2004)

2,350,000 U.S. Students in Online Learning
(2004)

Facebook
(February 4, 2004)

There are 50,000,000 Websites on the Internet
(May 2004)

8,000,000 U.S. Blogs
(November 2004)

Use of Internet in China
(2005)

From Gutenberg to the Internet
(2005)

"Broadcast Yourself"
(February 2005)

Code 2.2 wiki
(March 2005)

Development and State Control of the Chinese Internet
(April 14, 2005)

Wikimania!
(August 4 – August 8, 2005)

The Amazon Mechanical Turk
(November 2, 2005)

Massively Distributed Collaboration
(November 9, 2005)

The Growing Field of Internet Marketing
(2006)

The Highest Price Paid for a Domain Name
(January 16, 2006)

File-Sharing Exceeds Sales of Digital Music Downloads
(January 22, 2006)

On the Origins of the ENIAC
(February 14, 2006)

Crowdsourcing
(June 2006)

100,000,000 Users Within Three Years
(August 9, 2006)

Web-Footed?
(September 2006)

More than 100,000,000 Websites
(November 1, 2006)

The Importance of Social Networking on the Internet
(December 16, 2006)

10X Faster than Any Product on this Planet
(February 2007)

12,000,000 U.S. Blogs
(February 2007)

Gaining 100,000,000 New Accounts in One Year
(September 7, 2007)

About 200 Million People in the U.S. Have Broadband Connections
(May 2008)

A Virtual Course on Teaching in Virtual Worlds
(August 4, 2008)

"Computer Criminal Number One"
(August 5, 2008)

The Leading Classified Advertising Service
(September 2008)

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

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

YouTube Surpasses 100 Million Viewers
(2009)

Untitled
(2009)

China Becomes the Top User of the Internet
(January 14, 2009)

The Death of Michael Jackson Impacts the Internet
(June 25, 2009)

1.7 Billion Internet Users
(September 30, 2009)

World Texting Competition Won by Koreans
(January 14, 2010)

Facebook has 400,000,000 Users
(February 4, 2010)

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

Cell Phones Are Now Used More for Data than Speech
(May 13, 2010)

There are 400,000,000 Active Users of Facebook.
(May 16, 2010)

After Five Years More Than Two Billion Views Per Day
(May 16, 2010)

Data on Mobile Networks is Doubling Each Year
(August 1, 2010)