From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Human-Computer Interaction Outline

Robot
(1920)

The First Graphical Display for a Computer
(April 20, 1951)

The First Graphical Computer Game
(1952)

The First Trackball
(1952)

Perhaps the First Computer-Controlled Aesthetic System
(1953)

The First Light Pen
(1954)

Intelligence Amplification by Machines
(1956)

The Sage Air Defense System
(1957)

The TX-2 Computer for the Study of Human-Computer Interaction
(1959)

Human Versus Machine Intelligence and Communication
(1959)

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

The First Electronic Learning System
(1960)

Man-Computer Symbiosis
(March 1960)

"Online Man-Computer Communication"
(Circa June 1962)

Augmenting Human Intellect
(October 1962)

The First Graphical User Interface
(1963)

The "Intergalactic Computer Network"
(April 25, 1963)

Machine Perception of Three Dimensional Solids
(May 1963 – 1965)

The First Plasma Video Display (Neon Orange)
(1964)

Origins of Automated Facial Recognition
(1964 – 1966)

One of the Earliest Tablet Computers and the First Reference to Electronic Ink
(August 1964)

"Libraries of the Future"
(1965)

Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Hyperlink
(1965)

First System for Interactive Display of Molecular Structures
(1966)

The "Coons Patch"
(June 1967)

Invention of the Computer Mouse
(June 27, 1967)

First Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display System
(1968)

"2001: A Space Odyssey"
(1968)

Hypertext, Text Editing, Windows, Email and a Mouse
(December 8, 1968)

Xerox PARC
(1970)

The Architecture Machine
(1970)

One of the First Touchscreens
(1972)

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

Conceptually, the First Personal Computer System
(1973)

Manifesto of the Microcomputer Revolution
(1974)

The Roots of the PostScript Page Description Language
(1975 – 1978)

Early Interactive Computing and Virtual Reality
(1978 – 1979)

Xerox Star
(1981)

Blade Runner
(1982)

Microsoft Word
(September 1983)

On of the First Commercially Available Touchscreen Computers
(November 1983)

Apple Introduces the "Mac"
(January 24, 1984)

Kasparov Defeats 32 Different Chess Computers
(1985)

Windows 1.0
(November 20, 1985)

The First Commercially Available Tablet Computer
(September 1989)

The First "Search Engine" but Not a "Web Search Engine"
(1990)

Development of Neural Networks
(1993)

The Singularity
(January 1993)

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

Conflicts between Androids and Men
(2001)

Minority Report
(2002)

Second Life
(2003)

Kosmix.com
(2005)

Codex in Crisis
(November 5, 2007)