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A Chronology of Tech Advances
By Dave Peterson | April 28, 2008
One popular use of Twitter is to facilitate the exchange of links others may find useful or interesting. John C. Dvorak (relatively new Twitter user and always a source of interesting stuff) posted a link to a fascinating chronology of computer technology from 1961 to nearly the present (2004). The chronology was compiled by journalist and University of Florida professor David Carlson, and is hosted at the university. If you’ve been around computers for more than a few years, this will be a real nostalgia trip, revisiting such early online services as The Source, CompuServe, and Prodigy, and putting a date to the first occurrence of the word “Internet”. Anyone remember Hayes modems with the cups you fit a telephone receiver into? That’s here, too.
A few highlights:
• 1963: Origin of the word “hypertext”
• 1967: ARPANET project begins
• 1976: Apple I introduced
• 1983: IDNS developed
• 1993: First e-mail sent by a head of state (Bill Clinton)
There’s a lot here, and Carlson gives extra coverage to the online migration of print media, a special interest of his. This is highly recommended for anyone interested in reviewing where we’ve been, and how fast the advancements have arrived.
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/CARLSON/timeline.shtml
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