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From Gutenberg to the Internet Timeline An Annotated Chronology of the History of Information from about 30,000 B.C.E. to the present, by Jeremy M. Norman. |
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1967 |
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Middlesex, England develops the NPL Data Network under Donald Watts Davies. This is an experiment in packet switching. |
| Data Corporation contracts with the Ohio Bar Automated Research Corporation to create a full-text, interactive research service for Ohio statutes. | |
| Ted Nelson, Andries van Dam, and students at Brown University collaborate on the first hypertext editing system based on Nelson's concept of hypertext. They develop the project on an IBM 360/50 mainframe. | |
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The Colleges and universities in the state of Ohio found the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) to develop a computerized system in which the libraries of Ohio academic institutions can share resources and reduce costs. After the database expands far beyond the state of Ohio it will be renamed Online Computer Library Center. |
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Texas Instruments files the patent for the first hand-held calculator, invented by Jack S. Kilby, Jerry Merryman, and Jim Van Tassel. The patent (Number 3,819,921) will be awarded on June 25, 1974. This miniature calculator employs a large-scale integrated semiconductor array containing the equivalent of thousands of discrete semiconductor devices. |
March |
The United States Senate holds hearings on computer privacy. |
April |
At the ARPANET Design Session held by Roberts at the ARPA IPTO PI meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Wesley Clark suggests the use of mini-computers for network packet switches instead of using the main frame computers themselves for switching. These machines will be called Interface Message Processors. |
| June 27 | Douglas C. Engelbart files a patent for an X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System. This device will become known as The Mouse. |
1967 Spring Summer |
Department of Defense requests Director of Advanced Research Planning Agency (ARPA) to form a Task Force “to study and recommend hardware and software safeguards that would satisfactorily protect classified information in multi-access, resource-sharing computer systems.” Their report will be published in 1970. |
October |
Donald Davies introduces the use of the term “packet” to describe discrete blocks of data sent over networks in his paper “A digital communications network for computers.” |
October |
Lawrence Roberts publishes the first paper on the design of the ARPANET: “Multiple computer networks and intercomputer communication.” (See Reading 13.5) |
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