An ongoing archive of the analog/digital environment around us
1924 IBM
1939 Hewlett Packard
1941 Enigma Project run by Alan Turing
1946 ENIAC
1946 Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo
1948 First software to run on a computer at Manchester University
1948 “Cybernetics” concept by Norbert Wiener
1949 Patent for the first telephone pager system by Alfred J. Gross
1950 ERA by Remington Rand (first commercial computer)
1951 Texas Instruments
1953 First pen plotters by Remington-Rand
1955 Nixie Tube by Burroughs Corporation
1957 First image scanner developed for a computer
1958 Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo changes name into Sony
1959 COBOL
1959 Compuserve
1959 Bell 101 (first commercial modem, called “dataset”)
1959 MOSFET transistor created at Bell Labs
1960 First microchip by Fairchild Semiconductors
1962 Bell Bellboy
1963 ASCII
1963 IDS by General Electric (first database)
1964 IBM Drafting Systems
1964 BASIC
1963 First magnetic audio cassette (Philips)
1964 First flat screen (developed at University of Illinois)
1965 Word “pixel” first published by Frederic C. Billingsley
1965 “Computer Generated Pictures” at Howard Wise Gallery, New York (first exhibition of computer art)
1966 ELIZA (first chatbot)
1967 Hypertext Editing System
1967 MIT Architecture Machine Lab
1967 First ATM, Barclay’s London, UK
1968 Atelier Cyberspace
1968 First LED display by Hewlett Packard
1969 “2001: A Space Odyssey”, movie
1968 Intel
1968 Systran
1968 U.S. Patent No. 3,380,029 (first patent for software, submitted in 1965 by Martin Goetz)
1969 Phalanx CIWS (first lethal autonomous weapon)
1970 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
1969 EMS Musys (first digital sound sampler)
1970 Electronic Paper developed at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center
1971 First email sent
1971 @ symbol for email
1971 Busicom LE-120A (first handheld digital calculator)
1971 Creeper (first computer virus)
1971 Sony U-matic (first videocassette format)
1971 NASDAQ (first electronic stock market)
1971 EMI Central Research Laboratories CT scnner (first commercial computed tomography machine invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield)
1972 Pong
1972 Intel 8-bit 8008 (first microprocessor)
1972 Atari
1972 “Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics” at Stanford University
1973 First mouse at Xerox Alto Computer
1973 GPS
1973 Kuka Famulus (first industrial robot with six electromechanically driven axes)
1974 Universal Product Code (UPC)
1974 USA Privacy Act
1974 Altair 8800 (first commercial personal computer)
1974 (PLATO) News Report (first online newspaper)
1975 Arpanet
1975 IBM 5100 (first commercial laptop)
1975 First CCD flatbed scanner
1975 Microsoft
1975 First digital camera by Kodak
1975 Sony Betamax
1976 JVC VHS
1976 IBM 3800 (first laser printer)
1976 OCR
1977 First urban optic fiber cable network, Torino, Italy
1978 Wordstar
1978 BBS
1976 Apple
1977 New England Digital (NED) Synclavier (first commercial synthesizer using only digital sounds)
1978 Space Invaders
1979 Sony Walkman
1979 WordPerfect
1979 Visicalc (first spreadsheet software)
1980 Vectorworks
1980 Usenet
1980 Minitel
1980 Pac-Man
1981 Elk Cloner (first Apple virus)
1981 Microsoft MS-DOS
1981 Ian Murphy AKA Captain Zap (first person found guilty of a cyber-crime)
1981 Thomson Holidays UK (first business-to-business, B2B, online shopping)
1982 “Tron” movie
1982 AutoCAD
1982 Compact Disc
1982 Motorola DynaTAC 8000X (first commercial cellphone)
1982 Commodore 64
1982 Apollo computers are first to incorporate a touchpad
1982 Apple Macintosh 128K
1982 CATIA
1982 Silicon Graphics
1982 “Blade Runner” movie
1982 PostScript language
1983 Dynix (first digital library catalog software)
1983 Ethernet
1983 CD-ROM
1983 PlayNet
1983 RFID Tag
1983 Lotus 1-2-3
1984 Gateshead SIS/Tesco (first B2C online shopping system)
1984 “The Terminator” movie
1984 Sony Discman
1984 Tetris
1984 Cisco Systems
1984 JANET
1984 Listserv
1985 Super Mario Bros
1985 MIT Media Lab
1985 Adobe Pagemaker
1985 C++
1985 NSFNET
1986 Brain (first PC virus)
1986 3D Systems Corporation SLA-1 (first commercial 3D printer)
1986 Navlab (first self-driving vehicle developed at Carnegie Mellon University)
1986 3 and 1/2 inch micro-floppy disk
1987 McAfee Viruscan
1987 Mobira Cityman 900 (first Nokia mobile phone)
1987 Quark Express
1987 Adobe Illustrator
1987 ArchiCAD
1987 GIF
1987 Unix
1988 The existence of the surveillance program Echelon is revealed to the public
1988 Nikon QV-1000C (first commercial digital camera)
1988 Adobe Photoshop
1989 SimCity
1989 World Wide Web
1989 Bluetooth
1989 CorelDRAW
1989 America On Line
1989 DigiDesign ProTools
1990 Microsoft Windows 3.X
1990 Microsoft Office
1990 Autodesk 3D Studio
1991 Linux
1991 WinZip
1991 FormZ
1991 NetFone (first VoIP software)
1991 Adobe Premiere
1991 Street Fighter
1991 Firt webcam activated at Cambridge University Computer Science Department
1992 Book Stacks Unlimited (first online bookstore)
1992 Dial-up Internet access by Pipex, UK
1992 JPEG (or JPG)
1992 SMS
1992 Globex Automated Trading System
1992 Quicktime
1992 Jony Ive joins Apple
1992 Dolby Stereo Digital
1992 Boston Dynamics
1992 Mosaic (first cmmercial browser)
1993 PDF and Adobe Acrobat
1993 HTML
1993 MPEG (or MPG)
1993 Apple Newton
1993 Severe Tire Damage performs the first live concert streamed on the Internet
1993 Wired magazine
1993 Facial Recognition Technology (FERET)
1993 Adobe After Effects
1993 JSTOR
1994 MP3
1994 Amazon
1994 Rhino Beta
1994 Sony Playstation
1994 Netscape Navigator
1994 First blog by Justin Hall
1994 Yahoo
1994 e-tickets for airlines
1994 Stanford Federal Credit Union (first online banking services)
1994 Replica (first digital laser 3dscanner)
1994 AT&T PersonaLink Services (first online cloud storage service)
1994 iOmega Zip Drive
1994 QR Code
1994 John Daugman patents the algorithms for digital iris recognition
1995 Match.com
1995 eBay
1995 Internet Explorer
1995 Toy Story (first movie entirely filmed in CGI)
1995 Nintendo Virtual Boy
1995 JavaScript
1995 VocalTec (first commercial VoIP application)
1996 Jennicam (first cam site)
1996 DVD
1996 USB
1996 Flash Player
1996 Outlook
1996 Tamagotchi
1996 Tomb Raider
1996 UbuWeb
1996 Hotmail
1997 Archinect
1997 Netflix (VHS and DVD rentals)
1997 Wi-Fi (at 2Mb/S speed)
1997 Revit
1997 Apple Store (online)
1997 Grand Theft Auto
1997 First DLP projector by Digital Projection Ltd
1997 Emoji
1997 Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov at chess
1997 Auto-Tune
1998 Google
1998 4G / LTE
1998 Autodesk Maya
1998 Paypal
1999 Napster
1999 Blackberry 850
1999 Microsoft Messenger
1999 Adobe Indesign
1999 “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” (first movie distributed in cinema by digital systems)
1999 Sony DigitalI8 videocassette
1999 “The Matrix” movie
1999 AIBO robotic dog by Sony
2000 ASIMO robot by Honda
2000 Tripadvisor
2000 The 2K bug
2000 Baidu
2000 SketchUp
2000 Photonic crystal fibers cables
2001 “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” movie
2001 Google Earth
2001 Wikipedia
2001 iPod
2001 iTunes
2001 Creative Commons
2001 BitTorrent
2001 Xbox
2002 Roomba
2002 Dot-com Bubble
2002 LinkedIn
2002 Tor
2002 GoPro Inc.
2003 4Chan
2003 Facemash
2003 Skype
2003 WordPress
2003 Apple Safari
2003 myspace
2003 Second Life
2003 Anonymous
2004 Mindgeek (Pornhub, YouPorn)
2004 Google Books Library Project
2004 Flickr
2004 Gmail (beta)
2004 Nintendo DS
2004 Yelp
2005 Youtube
2005 Google Maps
2005 Amazon Mechanical Turk
2005 Reddit
2006 Facebook goes “public”
2006 Twitter
2006 Dezeen
2006 Nintendo Wii
2006 Google Translate
2006 Curbed
2006 Blu-ray
2006 WikiLeaks
2007 LG Prada (first capacitive touchscreen)
2007 Apple iPhone
2007 Tumblr
2007 Plataforma Arquitectura
2007 Streaming on Netflix
2007 Amazon Kindle
2007 Grasshopper
2007 Android
2007 Assassin’s Creed
2007 Fitbit
2008 HTC Dream (first Android cellphone)
2008 Google Play
2008 Archdaily
2008 Airbnb
2008 Dropbox
2008 Spotify
2008 Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
2008 Google Chrome
2009 Angry Birds
2009 Ubercab
2009 WeTransfer
2009 Grindr
2009 Bitcoin
2009 Foursquare
2009 Whatsapp
2010 Apple Facetime
2010 Siri
2010 Instagram
2010 Pinterest
2010 Apple iPad
2011 “Black Mirror” TV Series
2011 Snapchat
2011 Minecraft
2011 “Arab Spring” organized on Facebook
2011 Facebook Messenger
2012 Ectaco Jetbook Color (first colored e-ink device)
2012 “Gangnam Style” first YouTube video seen by 1 billion users
2012 Tinder
2012 Zoom
2012 Vine
2012 Oculus Rift
2013 Google Glasses
2013 Telegram
2013 Transcriptor at Stanford University (first biological transistor)
2013 “Her” movie
2013 Aaron Swartz commits suicide
2014 “Silicon Valley” series
2014 Alexa
2014 “Ex-Machina” movie
2014 Social Credit System (SCS) launched nationally in China
2015 NSA’s Skynet surveillance program revealed
2015 Apple Watch
2015 FCC Open Internet Order
2015 Beginning of the decline of sales of e-books
2015 “Mr. Robot” series
2016 Pokemon Go
2017 AlphaGo wins a three-game match of go against Ke Jie
2017 Tik Tok
2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), European Union
2018 Repeal of the FCC Open Internet Order
2018 Cambridge Analytica goes bankrupt
2019 Apple first company valued at 1 Trillion USD
2019 WeWorks crashes
2020 Sales of vinyl records surpass CDs
2020 ISO BIM Standard
2020 Apple first company valued at 2 Trillion USD