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1753
Charles Morrison Says Electricity Can Transmit MessagesCommunication
1753
Electrostatic TelegraphCommunication
1775
Electric TelegraphCommunication
1804
Electrochemical TelegraphCommunication
1816
First Working TelegraphCommunication
1822
Charles Babbage takes first steps in the construction of machines that would compute numbersCompute
1822
Steam CalculatorCalculator
1837
Charles Babbage published a paper describing a mechanical computer that is now known as the Analytical EngineCompute
1839
First Commercial Telegraph (Railway)Communication
1842
Punch Tape Player PianosMusic
1843
Ada Lovelace first describes what is known as a computer and its softwareComputeSoftware
1844
First Long Distance Telegraph MessageCommunication
1844
Innocenzo Manzetti Modeled Speaking TelegraphCommunication
1846
Punch Tape TelegramsCommunication
1846
Printing TelegraphCommunication
1847
Paper Roll Traveling Valve Reed OrganMusic
1854
Principes of the TelephoneCommunication
1860
PanetelegraphCommunication
1861
First Speech-Transmitting TelephoneCommunication
1862
The Pacific Railroad ActsRailroad
1862
The Pacific Railroad Acts (Amendments)Railroad
1871
Intent to Invent Sound TelegraphCommunication
1876
Bell Patents TelephoneCommunication
1876
Bell sends “Mr. Watson, come here! I want to see you!”Communication
1877
First Telephone Exchange in BostonCommunication
1877
First long-distance telephone lineCommunication
1878
Thurman ActRailroadRegulation
1880
Scanning PhototelegraphCommunication
1887
Multiplex SwitchboardCommunication
1887
Interstate Commerce ActRailroadRegulation
1888
TelautographCommunication
1888
Hertz Detects Radio WavesRadio
1899
Marconi Establishes Radio Link Between England and FranceRadio
1904
First Radio Transmission of MusicRadioMusic
1906
First Radio Program of Voice and Music in USRadioMusic
1908
RadiofaxCommunicationRadio
1910
The Mann–Elkins ActRailroadTelecommunications
1912
The Radio Act of 1912Radio
1913
The Kingsbury CommitmentTelecommunications
1919
ShortWave RadioCommunicationRadio
1920
The Federal Power ActElectricityRegulation
1921
Willis Graham ActTelecommunicationsRegulations
1921
Shreveport Rate CasesRailroadsTelecommunicationsRegulation
1927
First Transatlantic Telephone CallCommunicationTelecommunications
1927
The Radio Act of 1927RadioRegulation
1930
Smith v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co., 282 U.S. 133TelecommunicationsRegulation
1933
Telex MessagingCommunication
1934
The Communications Act of 1934TelecommunicationsRegulation
1934
FCC FoundedGovernmentRegulation
1935
Public Utility Holding Company ActElectricityRegulation
1941
Store Information In MemoryStorageMemory
1947
TransistorComputeElectronic
1948
Mathematical Theory of CommunicationCommunication
1949
FCC Fairness DoctrineRadioRegulation
1949
Memex (Linked Documents)DocumentsLinks
1949
Computer Talks Over PhoneCommunication
1949
The U.S. vs. Western Union LawsuitTelecommunicationsRegulation
1958
Digital Phone LinesTelecommunications
1958
Integrated CircuitSoftwareElectronics
1959
Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) Wide Area NetworkMilitaryNetworks
1960
Object Oriented ProgrammingSoftware
1961
Computer Time SharingCloudSoftware
1962
Telstar satellite transmits the first TV pictureSatelliteTelevision
1963
Hypertext (Ted Nelson)Web
1963
Hypermedia (Ted Nelson)Web
1964
Electronic File SystemStorageFiles
1964
Sync Satellite Television NetworkSatellitesTelevision
1964
IBM SABRE Reservation SystemTravel
1966
Xerox unveils the first fax machine
1966
Michigan Educational Research Information Triad (MERIT)
1967
First ATM is installed in London
1967
Melvin Conway introduces what is later called Conways Law
1968
The Mother of All Demos by Douglas Engelbart
1969
Mass produced software components By McIlroy, Malcolm Douglas
1969
Host Software The First RFC
1969
ARPANET Four Initial Nodes Established
1970
ARPANET Reaches East Coast (MIT)
1971
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
1972
Relational Database Model
1974
Transmission Control Program (TCP)
1974
Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
1975
First Edition of Fred Brooks Mythical Man Month published
1976
Entity-Relationship Databases
1976
CYCLADES Computer Network
1976
X.25 Packet Switching Protocol
1977
The Department of Energy Organization ActElectricity
1978
Public Utility Regulatory Policies ActElectricity
1979
First Commercial Cellular Network
1980
The Staggers Rail ActRailroad
1982
Breakup of the Bell SystemTelecommunications
1982
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
1983
ARPANET Switches to TCP/IP
1984
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
1984
Open Systems Interconnect (OSI)
1985
Dell beings assembling made to order computers
1985
Whole Earth Lectronic Link (WELL)
1985
National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET)
1987
Transport Layer Interface (TLI)
1990
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
1991
Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
1991
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 1.0
1992
Energy Policy Act of 1992Electricity
1992
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
1993
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
1994
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
1994
Design Patterns book, by the Gang of Four published; includes axioms like Program to an interface, not an implementation
1995
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
1995
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 2.0
1995
Secure Socket Shell (SSH)
1995
Open Network Computing (ONC) Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
1996
Telecommunications Act of 1996Telecommunications
1996
FERC Orders 888 and 889Electricity
1996
FERC Order 2000Electricity
1996
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.0)
1996
Active Server Pages (ASP)
1996
Web Users Reach 36 Million
1996
Application Service Provider (ASP)
2003
Object Relational Mapping (ORM)
2005
The 2005 Energy Policy ActElectricity
2006
OAuth 1.0 (final draft released December, 2007)
2010
Oracle V Google API Copyright
2011
Fast Healthcare interoperability Resources (FHIR)
2012
President Obama Federal Government API Mandate
2012
API Strategy & Practice Conference
2014
James Lewis and Martin Fowler popularize the microservice architectural pattern
2014
ESPN ends its public API program, signaling broader shifts in API strategies
2012
Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2)
2015
Amazon Launches AWS API Gateway
2016
Amazon Alexa Voice Service
2018
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
2021
Oracle v Google Supreme Court Decision
