2003 Software & Media Idea 50’s and 60’s 1973 Ethernet invented by Robert Metcalfe/ Xerox 1977 First PC modem, developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, first sold to hobbyists 1978 Al Gore introduces the term “information superhighway” 1956 The first hard disk drive ever launched: IBM Model 350 Disk File comes with IBM 305 RAMAC computer 1966 Douglas Parkhill: Parkhill's book, The Challenge of the Computer Utility, predicts many modern cloud ideas 80 ’s 90 ’s 00’s Future 1964 BASIC is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz 7 0’s 1969 First message sent on ARPANET: The core network that became the global internet 1971 Email first developed by Ray Tomlinson 1970 The Floppy Disk invented by Alan Shugart 1981 First IBM-PC invented MS-DOS invented Standardised concept of worldwide interconnected TCP/IP networks (AKA the Internet) developed 1982 1979 1992 1957 In response to the launch of Sputnik, the US forms the Advanced Research Products Agency Launch of Mosaic web browser grants widespread Internet access 1993 Web commonly used as both public and private file storage Late 1990’s 1994 First mass commercial spam spread by law firm Canter and Siegel John McCarthy: An American computer scientist sees computing as a public utility Early 6 0’s 1985 Microsoft releases Windows 1986 First PC virus found 1988 Tim Berners-Lee writes the proposal for the World Wide Web 1998 Launch of Napster popularizes file sharing over the Internet Launch of Wikipedia 2001 Myspace launched 2002 Amazon Web Service (AWS) in the cloud Facebook and Flickr launched 2004 Popularisation of Web 2.0. John Batelle and Tim O’Reilly describe the concept of "the Web as a Platform" 2005 popularizes free online video hosting and sharing 2006 Google Docs launches, putting millions in direct contact with the cloud William Gibson, in his short story “Burning Chrome”, coins the term "cyberspace" 1984 CD-ROM invented Apple Macintosh invented Over 1000 web hosts 300% in ads for full-time cloud computing positions November 2009 - November 2010 2010 US Government officials begin mandating cloud adoption Google can reach 1 trillion web pages, but just a small fraction are indexed by the search engine launches catalogue of six million songs, supported by ads 2008 Gartner says cloud computing will be as influential as e-commerce Launch of Apple iCloud introduces the concept of the Unified Cloud Experience 1968 Douglas Engelbart: invents the mouse Mobile phones invented First smartphone: IBM Simon shown as a concept product Tim Berners-Lee writes the software for world's first web server, which came to be known as CERN 1990 Launch of IMDB online film database Tim Berners-Lee creates World Wide Web and Internet protocol HTTP 1995 Windows 95 released with Internet Explorer Geocities, free web hosting site, launches Launch of Hotmail on July 4th First smartphone, Touchscreen Ericsson R380, released. First device to use an open OS: Symbian Dot Com Bust 2000 2012 Revenue for cloud services Gartner predicts $148.8B €115B ₤96B 2014 The idea of private cloud for each individual becomes popularized. Sources: General http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/modern_5.htm http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/A-history-of-cloud-computing http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/interactive/2009/oct/23/internet-arpanet http://www.cloudtweaks.com/2011/02/a-history-of-cloud-computing/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ciscoibsg/6101427547/ http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=707508 http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ 2013 growth Hardware http://www.f-secure.com/content-anywhere 1,000,000 Web Hosts 1997 20,000,000 Web Hosts 2011 European Network and Information Security Agency makes Cloud Computing recommendations for EU governments. 584,000,000 Web Hosts AUD139.2B launched, F-Secure offering operators and ISPs the cloud as a service 1 billion users share content in a public cloud on Facebook Google Drive release expected, entering the content storage market The idea of a private cloud for each individual becomes popularized Services like Apple iCloud and Google Drive are tied to mobile phones Consumers expect to want a personal cloud that they can control and doesn’t track them. Privacy issues become more important and people are more willing to pay for it. Invention of the Pentium processor Content | Anywhere Here’s a look at the key breakthroughs that have made the rise of the cloud inevitable. When computers filled whole rooms, it was difficult to imagine phones more powerful than lunar landers, Star Trek communicators and C3PO put together. Yet even when single computers filled a room, it seems computer scientists always dreamed of universal storage access in the cloud.