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RogerTech.uk History of information technology(Key 'Internet' dates in bold) 1800s 1865 Commercial telefax 1876 Telephone! 1900s 1909 Electric toaster - according to multiple sources, the first patent for a commercially available and successful toaster was submitted by Frank Shailor in 1909, on behalf of the General Electric company in the US (… and not Alan MacMasters - Wikipedia hoax). 1940s 1943 Colossus - first programmable digital computer 1945 ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer 1948 The term 'bit' coined 1950s 1951 First commercial computers 1954 IBM mainframe 1956 IBM invents the hard-disk 1956 The term 'byte' coined 1957 FORTRAN programming language 1958 Invention of the integrated circuit (IC) 1960s 1960 First minicomputer DEC's PDP-1 1962 First commercial modem 1963 Prototype mouse 1964 IBM mainframe 360 and OS/360 1964 The BASIC programming language 1965 'Moore's law' 1965 DEC PDP-8 using ICs 1966 AI laboratory at Stanford 1966 HP-2116 business computer 1966 The ARPAnet 1966 Xerox Magnafax first facsimile machine to work on a telephone line (see also 1865) 1967 First ATMs introduced by Barclays 1968 Intel founded 1969 Magnetic stripe bank card 1970s 1970 Unix OS 1970 First CPU - 8 bit 1971 Floppy disk 1971 Intel's first CPU: 4004 1972 Email '@' invented 1973 Motorola invents the mobile phone 1973 Vint Cerf coins term 'Internet' 1974 First personal computer Altair 8800 1974 CP/M OS 1975 Microsoft create BASIC for Altair 1976 Teletext: BBC Ceefax, ITV ORACLE (1980s) 1976 Apple Computer formed 1976 Zilog Z80 microprocessor 1977 Research Machines RML 380Z school computer 1978 Intel 8086 8 bit CPU 1978 Wordstar word processor 1978 GPS first US military satellite 1979 VisiCalc spreadsheet 1979 Videotex BT Prestel (via modem) 1980s 1980 Microsoft (MS) DOS 1980 Apple goes public 1981 SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - sending email 1981 IBM PC launched with MS DOS 1982 Ethernet network 1982 BBC Micro from Acorn school computer 1982 Research Machines RM 480Z school computer (networked) 1982 Intel 80186 16 bit CPU & RM Nimbus school computer (networked) 1982 WordPerfect word processor for MS DOS 1983 Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet for MS DOS 1984 Intel 16 bit 80286 - IBM PC/AT 1984 Dell starts making PCs 1984 Apple's Macintosh 1984 The CDROM 1985 POP Post Office Protocol - retrieving email 1985 Acorn RISC (reduced instruction set computer) Machines - later: ARM Ltd 1985 MS Windows v1 1985 Aldus PageMaker DTP (for Mac) 1986 IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol - retrieving email 1986 Intel 80386 32 bit CPU 1986 SCSI device interface 1987 RAID storage 1987 Aldus PageMaker DTP (for MS Windows v1) 1987 MS Excel for MS Windows 1988 Eudora email client 1988 First MS Windows word processor with paragraph styles and columns - Samna Ami (later Lotus WordPro) 1989 Tim Berners-Lee hypertext (http) - www… 1989 MS Word for MS Windows 1990s 1990 Intel 80486/i486 CPU 1990 Pegasus email client 1990 MS Office 1991 Linux OS 1991 2G mobile comms 1992 SMS short message service: texting 1992 Nokia 1011 GSM mobile phone 1992 Chip and PIN (in France) 1993 Adobe Acrobat (PDF creator) 1993 Intel P5/Pentium CPU 1994 Nokia 2010 mobile phone with easy-to-use SMS 1994 'Pizzanet' first online shopping site 1995 Netscape internet browser 1995 AltaVista search engine 1995 MS Internet Explorer internet browser 1995 Amazon launches online bookstore 1995 eBay 1996 USB interface 1997 Netflix 1997 WiFi at 2Mbps 1997 Google search engine 1997 Dragon’s Naturally Speaking voice recognition software 1999 Bluetooth 1999 IoT - ‘internet of things’ term coined 2000s 2000 AMD64 64 bit CPU 2000 StarOffice free office download (to later become LibreOffice) 2000 US GPS publicly available 2001 Intel IA-64 64 bit CPU 2001 Apple iPod 2001 PayPal 2002 Firefox internet browser 2002 OpenOffice (from StarOffice to later become LibreOffice) 2003 Wikipedia 2003 Skype 2003 Android Inc - Linux based OS 2004 Facebook 2004 'Chip and PIN' card machines in UK shops 2004 Linux Ubuntu OS for PCs 2004 Googlemail - Gmail 2005 Google buys Android Inc 2005 YouTube 2006 Twitter 2006 Wikileaks 2007 Smartphone - Apple iPhone using ARM CPU and iOS 2007 Contactless card payments using RFID 2008 PDF becomes an open standard 2008 Android smartphone OS 2008 DuckDuckGo privacy search engine 2008 Google Chrome internet browser 2008 Airbnb 2008 IoT realised: more ‘things’ than people 2009 Uber 2009 WhatsApp 2009 3G mobile comms 2009 Bitcoin digital cryptocurrency 2010s 2010 Apple iPad 2010 Apple FaceTime 2011 LibreOffice (from OpenOffice) 2011 Apple Siri voice assistant 2012 4G mobile comms 2012 Zoom 2012 Apple iMessage 2012 Apple Wallet 2013 Deliveroo 2014 Apple Pay contactless payments 2014 Amazon Alexa voice assistant 2015 Apple Watch (with contactless payments) 2015 Tile tracker 2015 Thread low power IoT networking protocol 2016 Google Assistant voice assistant 2018 Signal messenger app 2019 5G mobile comms 2019 Matter home connectivity standard 2020s 2020 Apple ARM64 CPU M1 Macs 2021 Apple AirTags 2022 Matter with Thread home automation products 2022 OpenAI ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) history @ rogertech.uk
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