Digital milestones in the 21st Century The first teletype is connected to a "timesharing" mainframe computer. Introduction of DIGITAL's PDP-8, the world's first mass-produced minicomputer. The term "microcomputer" is first used in print The very first electronic message is transmitted from one remote computer at UCLA to another at Stanford research institute using ARPANET The 8" floppy disk appears. It doesn't seem large at the time Atari releases Pong, the first commercial video game. Intel introduces its 200-KHz 8008 chip, the first commercial 8-bit microprocessor . This sparks the development of smaller, faster, and cheaper computers. First appearance of an interpreted BASIC programming language The world's first supercomputer, the Cray-1, is introduced The Commodore PET, Apple II, and Radio Shack's TRS-80 are all released. Introduction of the VAX-11/780 "supermini" computer WordStar software becomes the first commercially successful word processor. The first e-mail was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself The first virus named creeper is created 1980’s The IBM PC 8080 is introduced. Apple's Lisa is introduced, the first commercial microcomputer with a graphical user interface. Architecture of the Domain Name System (DNS) is designed, containing 1000 hosts. Apple Macintosh is introduced, the first mainstream commercial computer with a graphical user interface. In six months sales of the computer reach 100,000. Microsoft Windows 1.0 is created, representing a shift from the DOS operating system. MCI Mail and CompuServe provide the first commercial email connection through NSFNET Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web 1990’s CD-RMicrosoft Windows 3.0 is released, beginning the era of Microsoft's domination of the software industry Philips specifies the characteristics and format of a recordable CD, or CD-R. An early World Wide Web (WWW) system is released by CERN to the high energy physics community Network service providers America Online and Delphi connect their proprietary email systems to the Internet The HTML 1.0 standard is published. CERN releases the World Wide Web into the public domain HTML 2.0, the first formal HTML standard, is published Internet Explorer 2.0 web browser is introduced. Windows 95 is introduced HTML 4.0 is released Apple introduces the iMac Bluetooth, a short range wireless networking standard, is announced The Google search engine is officially launched Internet Explorer is launched Nokia 9000 Communicator is the first mobile with access to the web Hotmail is launched Macintosh OS X is released Windows XP is released Universal Serial Bus 2.0 (USB) is released. The third WiFi modulation standard, 802.11g, is ratified. Consumer products and WiFi "hotspots" proliferate. First iPad released YouTube is launched Facebook is available for anyone to join Apple launches the iPhone Android operating system for smartphones is released 2000’s 1996 2005 2006 2007 2008 1970’s 1969 1971 1971 Network Service Providers Our IT Department Ltd. www.ouritdept.co.uk Twitter: @ouritdepartment Facebook: /LondonITSupport