Recent history of intelligent machines

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A recent history of intelligent machines

2010 Web 3.0 suggested

2008 1 trillion pages registered by Google

2007 Bloggers in Burma keep world informed during military crackdown

2005 		Google earth released

2004		Web 2.0 conference suggests new uses of the internet

2001		Wikipedia begun

2000		1 billion web pages registered by google

1996	24 Hours in Cyberspace "the largest one-day online event" up to that date brings together photographers, editors, programmers, and interactive designers

1995 		Amazon starts service, ebay founded

1994		Joint Photographic Experts Group establishes image coding standard jpeg (or .jpg)

1993	First web cam at Cambridge University (shooting a coffee pot); first graphical browser (Mosaic by Mark Andersen)

1989		Tim Berners-Lee writes protocols for www (world wide web), html (hypertext markup language), http (hypertext transfer protocol)

1983		Apple Lisa with graphical user interface released

1982 		First portable computer by Osborne

1981		IBM 5150 becomes de facto standard for PC’s running Microsoft software

1977		The Apple II introduced, the first successful Apple computer

1975		The Altair 8800, the first successful home (or personal) computer is designed; beginning of Microsoft with BASIC language

1973	Bob Metcalfe, a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), writes a memo about a network technology called Ethernet

1972	Ray Tomlinson adapts existing e-mail technology to ARPANET, uses the " @ " symbol

1969	An experimental network of four computers called ARPANET is commissioned by the U.S. government; the four computers are located at Stanford, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah

1968		Douglas Engelbart, invents the computer mouse

1951		Lincoln Laboratory makes military computer The Whirlwind which has a graphic interface

1941	Conrad Zuse produces the Z3, acknowledged to be the first computer as it is currently understood