Chronological inventory
Innovations
Technical milestones ordered by year, from mechanical to digital.
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Mechanical Origins
Electronic Era
Personal Computing
Birth of the Internet
Web Era
Web 2.0 & Social Media
Mobile & Cloud
Generative AI
ARPA — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1969
ARPANET
Network / Computer network
Daderot — CC0 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1973
Ethernet
Network / Local area protocol
Michel Bakni — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1974
TCP/IP
Protocol / Networking
David Göthberg — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1977
RSA
Cryptography / Security
W3C — CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1991
HTML
Software / Markup language
Larry Ewing, Simon Budig, Garrett LeSage — CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
1991
Linux
Software / Kernel and operating system
Just van Rossum — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1991
Python
Software / Programming language
Coolcaesar — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1991
World Wide Web
Software / Hypertext system