2004 |
February 10 |
W3C publishes quite a few
recommendarions regarding the Resource Description Framework
(RDF) and Web Ontology Language
(OWL), thereby further providing the base for
the Semantic Web.
|
2001 |
May |
The Scientific American publishes
an article by Tim Berner-Lee, James
Hendler and Ora Lassila, by which a
wider public audience takes notice of the Semantic Web
project.
|
2000 |
January 26 |
Having specified the Extensible Hypertext Markup
Language (XHTML)
W3C publishes the recommendation of HTML
redefined in XML.
|
1999 |
December 24 |
W3C publishes the
recommendation of the Hypertext Markup Language version 4.01
(HTML).
|
August 23 |
On occasion of the Open Source Conference,
Udanax, the former
XOC, Inc., release
Xanadu to the public under the X
license.
|
1998 |
September |
Tim Berners-Lee publishes his
Semantic Web Road map.
|
February 10 |
W3C publishes the
recommendation of the Extensible Markup Language
(XML).
|
1997 |
August 1 |
Ora Lassila und Ralph
Swick deliver the first (internal) draft of
model and syntax of the Resource Description Framework (RDF).
|
1995 |
November |
Version 2.0 of HTML as
RFC 1866.
|
August 9 |
Netscape's
IPO. Two weeks later
Microsoft releases Windows
95. Part of it is the first Internet
Explorer, which appears to
Berners-Lee as put together in a
hurry.
.
|
1994 |
October 1 |
Official start of the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
|
May 25 |
[unti 27th] 1st WWW
conference in Geneva
|
April |
James
Clark and
Marc Andreessen found
Mosaic Communications Corp. and rename it
Netscape in November.
|
1993 |
June |
Tim
Berners-Lee and
Dan Connolly jointly publish
a draft of HTML.
|
June |
NCSA releases
Mosaic 1.0 for X11.
|
1992 |
[?] |
Usenet newsgroup alt.hypertext created. |
November 3 |
First draft of HTML |
June 21 |
Robert
Coover publishes his essay The End
of Books.
in the New York
Times
|
March |
RFC 1436: The Internet
Gopher Protocol.
, by Farhad
Anklesaria and
Mark
McCahill.
|
1991 |
December 15 |
During Hypertext '91 in San Antonio, TX,
Berners-Lee and
Cailliau give a Web demonstration
(their paper had been rejected).
|
December 12 |
First WWW server
outside CERN: the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center (SLAC),
http://slacvm.slac.stanford.edu.
|
June |
Farhad
Anklesaria and
Mark McCahill
of the Universität of Minnesota publish
Gopher as free software.
|
April |
Brewster
Kahle posts a note on his Wide
Area Information Servers (WAIS)
as freeware.
|
1990 |
December 25 |
Christmas present: On Berners-Lee's
and Cailliau's
machines the World Wide Web editor/browser, developed by
Bernes-Lee
is working.
|
1989 |
[?] |
Michael
Joyce publishes
Afternoon. , a hypermedia story.
|
March |
Tim Berners-Lee
at CERN presents his Information
Management: A Proposal.
.
|
1987 |
November |
First worldwide hypertext conference at Chapel
Hill, North Carolina (300 participants, keynote delivered by
Andries van Dam).
|
August |
Apple introduces
HyperCard — Hypertext for the
rest of us ;-)
|
Summer |
Office Workkstations
Ltd. (OWL) from Edinburgh offer
Guide, the first commercial hypertext tool.
|
1986 |
October 15 |
ISO publishes the final
version of SGML.
|
1985 |
[?] |
At the Institute for Research in
Information and Scholarship.
(IRIS)
the hypertext system Intermedia is in the works.
|
1983 |
[?] |
Andries van
Dam, William S.
Shipp and
Norman Meyrowitz
found the Institute for Research in Information and
Scholarship.
(IRIS).
|
1981 |
April |
Ted
Nelson publishes Literary
Machines.
|
1980 |
[?] |
First working draft of SGML published
|
1978 |
[?] |
Beginning of SGML's
standardization: the IBM team and the
GCA people join forces.
|
1973 |
May |
Goldfarb
publishes the Design Considerations for Integrated Text
Processing Systems.
as IBM Cambridge
Scientific Center's Technical Report G320-094, originally
written in 1971.
|
1971 |
[?] |
Charles
Goldfarb names the language, which he
Edward Mosher and
Ray Lorie had
developed, GML (Generalized Markup
Language) to make sure the acronym will always show where the
language came from.
|
1970 |
October 15 |
Charles
Goldfarb ,
Edward Mosher and
Theodore Peterson
present An Online System for Integrated
Text Processing.
at the 33rd annual meeting of the
American Society for Information
Science in Philadelphia.
|
March 17 |
Stan
Rice publishes Editorial Text
Structures.
.
|
1969 |
[?] |
Charles Goldfarb
, Edward
Mosher und
Raymond Lorie
develop the Generalized Markup Language
(GML) as part of an
IBM project.
|
1968 |
[?] |
Andries van
Dam and others develop the File Retrieval and
Editing System (HES) at Brown
Universit.y
|
Autumn |
Douglas
Engelbart demonstrates his
oN Line System (NLS)
during the Joint Computer Conference. in San
Francisco.
|
1967 |
[?] |
Ted
Nelson and Andries
van Dam develop the Hypertext
Editing System (HES) at Brown
Universit.y
|
[?] |
William
Tunnicliffe , chairman of the
Graphic Computer Association
(GCA), during a meeting of the
Canadian Government Printing
Office suggests to separate the content and
format of documents.
|
1965 |
[?] |
Ted
Nelson coins the terms
hypertext and hypermedia in his
presentation A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing
and the Indeterminate.
, on the occasion of an
ACM conference in Pittsburgh.
|
1963 |
[?] |
Douglas
Engelbart invents the mouse. In this
year he starts his work with the the Augmentation Research
Center at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and
develops a hypermedia system called oN-Line System
(NLS).
|
1962 |
[?] |
Douglas
Engelbart publishes his report
Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual
Framework.
.
|
1960 |
Autumn |
Ted Nelson
starts work on Xanadu.
|
1945 |
July |
Vannevar
Bush publishes his essay As We May
Think.
in the journal The Atlantic Monthly.
|