Using Various Sources We Present An Interactive Timeline Of "The Internet" and the Introduction of Computing and The Internet to Ireland.
Through a mix of text, linked material and linked videos. This timeline of over 600 curated items represents Ireland's computing history through the birth of the Internet, it's introduction to the country and the birth of the Web while continuing through to the present day.
Clicking on a headline will expand that entry.
USSR launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite. In response, US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the following year, within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military
J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark, MIT: On-Line Man Computer Communication(August) Galactic Network concept encompassing distributed social interactions
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Irish TechArchives Project | https://techarchives.irish/ |
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Hobbes' Internet Timeline | https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2235 |
Contributors to Hobbes' Internet Timeline have their initials next | |
to the contributed items in the form (:zzz:) and are: | |
ad1 | Arnaud Dufour (arnaud.dufour@hec.unil.ch) |
amk | Alex McKenzie (mckenzie@bbn.com) |
dk1 | Daniel Karrenberg (Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net) |
ec1 | Eric Carroll (eric@enfm.utcc.utoronto.ca) |
esr | Eric S. Raymond (esr@locke.ccil.org) |
feg | Farrell E. Gerbode (farrell@is.rice.edu) |
gck | Gary C. Kessler (kumquat@hill.com) |
glg | Gail L. Grant (grant@glgc.com) |
gmc | Grant McCall (g.mccall@unsw.edu.au) |
gst | Graham Thomas (G.S.Thomas@uel.ac.uk) |
irh | Ian R Hardy (hardy@uclink2.berkeley.edu) |
jap | Jean Armour Polly (mom@netmom.com) |
jg1 | Jim Gaynor (gaynor@agvax.ag.ohio.state.edu) |
kf1 | Ken Fockler (fockler@hq.canet.ca) |
lhl | Larry H. Landweber (lhl@cs.wisc.edu) |
mpc | Mellisa P. Chase (pc@mitre.org) |
pb1 | Paul Burchard (burchard@cs.princeton.edu) |
pds | Peter da Silva (peter@baileynm.com) |
ph1 | Peter Hoffman (hoffman@ece.nps.navy.mil) |
rab | Roger A. Bielefeld (rab@hal.cwru.edu) |
sc1 | Susan Calcari (susanc@is.internic.net) |
sk2 | Stan Kulikowski (stankuli@uwf.bitnet) |
sw1 | Stephen Wolff (swolff@cisco.com) |
tp1 | Tim Pozar (pozar@kumr.lns.com) |
twc | Thomas W. Creedon - K'o Wei Li (tcreedon@mitre.org) |
vgc | Vinton Cerf (vcerf@isoc.org) |
wzl | W. Zorn (zorn@ira.uka.de) |
zby | Zenel Batagelj (zenel.batagelj@uni-lj.si) |
Other sources: | As linked to by the team |
Timeline is JQuery Based from: | https://github.com/technotarek/timeliner |