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Cave Drawings Hieroglyphics Encyclopedia Libraries Scriptorium Printing Press Newspapers Public Libraries Morse Code Radio Telephone Television Hyperlink ARPANET Floppy Disc POP: 1-5 M (Lee, K.) POP: 44-60 M (Roser, M.) POP: 350-400 M (Roser, M.) POP: 350-400 M (Roser, M.) POP: 530-578 M (Roser, M.) POP: 1.13-1.3 B (Roser, M.) POP: 1.13-1.3 B (Roser, M.) POP: 1.13-1.3 B (Roser, M.) POP: 1.65 B (Roser, M.) POP: 2.38-2.53 B (Roser, M.) POP: 3.02 -3.26 B (Roser, M.) POP: 3.02 -3.26 B (Roser, M.) POP: 3.76 B (Roser, M.) POP: 5.4 B (Roser, M.) This research method and output was selected to put search engines in context with POP: 150-195 M (Roser, M.) POP: 205 M (Roser, M.) Dated cave paintings in A basic writing system of Monks transcribing books Printing press allows for Newspapers began to inform Public libraries emerge as a Morse code allows for Modern Electrics noted that The first words were spoken Television broadcasting The term "hyperlink" is a ARPANET- Internal networks Not the first digital file Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Sulawesi, Indonesia now rival The first documented Library of Alexandria other resources and tools people have used to access knowledge since the methods ancient Egyptian consisted of called “scriptorium” are widespread production of large groups of people of system for sharing knowledge transfer hundreds of amateur by Alexander Graham Bell on introduces live visual imagery, reference to data that the reader were used between government storage technology, but one of Web, an Internet-based hypermedia initiative the earliest cave art in Spain encyclopedia "Historia becomes the largest and tasked with replicating & printed material. (Lauer, J.) current events & information knowledge throughout the instantaneous across large experimenters were active in March 10, giving people and information sharing to a can directly follow either by and educational institutions, the most widespread, the for global information sharing while at CERN, and France, such as Lascaux about five hundred common Naturalis" is written by Roman most significant library in were first documented and or discovered. copying the knowledge of the (Unwin, P.) general public. (Eden, B. L.) distances. (Morse, F.B.) New York and in 1910, it was around the world a way to widespread audience. (Morris, B.) clicking, tapping, or hovering. IT giving birth to what would be the floppy disk becomes available. the European Particle Physics Laboratory. long believed to be the oldest signs, known as hieroglyphs. author Pliny, setting the model the ancient world. era. (Karn, N.) reported that there were 800 share knowledge verbally. was coined by Ted Nelson at the World Wide Web. (Lukasik, S. J) (Computer History Museum) (Computer History Museum) on earth that depicted hunting Hieroglyphics emerged as a for organizing & archiving plus amateur radio stations (Prescott, G. B.) start of Project Xanadu, inspired knowledge. (Aubert, M.) sophisticated way to knowledge of the outside (MacLeod, R.) in Chicago. (Balbi, G.) by "As We May Think", a 1945 There was a desire to understand access points, volume of access available to the document spoken world. (Doody, A.) essay by Vannevar Bush. language. (Allen, J. P.) general public, and to consider whether there was an argument to be made about (Rosenzweig, R) techno determinism in context with how knowledge tools have evolved over centuries. For those unfamiliar with techno determinism, it is a reductionist theory that assumes that a society’s technology determines the development of its social structure and cultural values.

The term is believed to have originated from Thorstein Veblen, an American sociologist and economist. The decision was made to begin the timeline based on the

year of the first known discovery of cave drawings. One of the biggest challenges of Acknowledged as one of the most important inventions of the research was that multiple sources that offered conflicting years of discovery or The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural recorded time, the printing press had its origins in China, where adornments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of as early as the second century A.D. printing from engraved wood launch. To ensure accuracy, where the body of research did not indicate one specific scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art blocks, or xylography, was in use. During the late 1430’s, and artefacts of ancient Egypt. The biblion (place for books) Johannes Gutenberg used metal typefaces, improving the quality In 1989 the Internet had been around for about ten years. and durability of the process. Gutenberg’s invention made a year, I provided a range. focused on gathering materials and scripture from many Without the hyperlink, would we have the World Wide Web? Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee wanted to use the dramatic impact when it reached the public. At first, the noble languages and forms. The term "hyperlink" is a reference to data that the reader can technology on which the Internet was based to provide a place classes looked down on it and regarded hand-inked books as a It is unclear as to when the library was burned down, and directly follow either by clicking, tapping, or hovering. Hypertext where all kinds of information could be available to anyone, sign of luxury. That bias enabled common people to access historians can’t agree if it was set on fire by the army of Julius is text displayed and accessible from the link and was coined by uncensored, in a user- and graphic-friendly environment. The By: Rachel Noonan books, increasing their knowledge; breaking barriers to education Caesar in 48 BC and destroyed in an attack by Aurelian in the Ted Nelson at the start of Project Xanadu, inspired by "As We May result was the World Wide Web, which Berners-Lee invented while and culture. The printing press was also largely responsible for 270s AD (MacLeod, R). Think", a 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush. working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. Latin’s decline as other regional languages became the norm in According to Berners-Lee, “[This] universality is essential… There locally printed materials. The printing press also helped was a second part of the dream, too, dependent on the Web being standardize language, grammar, and spelling. (Lauer, J). so generally used that it became a realistic mirror… of the ways in which we work and play and socialize” (Ferris, T).

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AOL Web Crawlers AltaVista Yahoo Internet Explorer ICQ MSN Messenger Network Facebook Google Scholar Wikileaks Amazon (AWS) DuckDuckGo ResearchGate WhatsApp Siri WeChat Google Now Microsoft Cortana Amazon Echo POP: 5.4 B (Roser, M) POP: 5.74 B (Roser, M) POP: 5.74 B (Roser, M) POP: 5.74 B (Roser, M) POP: 5.82 B (Roser, M) POP: 5.82 B (Roser, M) POP: 5.97 B (Roser, M) POP: 5.74 B (Roser, M) POP: 6.2 B (Roser, M) POP: 6.2 B (Roser, M) POP: 6.28 B (Roser, M) POP: 6.36 B (Roser, M) POP: 6.44 B (Roser, M) POP: 6.6 B (Roser, M) POP: 6.6 B (Roser, M) POP: 6.6 B (Roser, M) POP: 6.76 B (Roser, M) POP: 6.76 B (Roser, M) POP: 6.85 B (Roser, M) POP: 7.1 B (Roser, M) POP: 7.1 B (Roser, M) POP: 7.1 B (Roser, M) POP: 7.27 B (Roser, M) POP: 7.27 B (Roser, M) One of the largest and most In February 1991, AOL for This year gave birth to four AltaVista was a Web search Founded in January 1994 by Microsoft has developed An client Originally the search One of the first ever Baidu, Inc., incorporated on Wikipedia is a free online Tor is for enabling Google Scholar is a freely WikiLeaks is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Twitter is an online news and DuckDuckGo is an Internet An open platform research WhatsApp Messenger is a Siri is an voice-controlled Apple WeChat is a Chinese social Google Now is a Cortana is an intelligent The amazon Alexa is a used social networks in the DOS was launched using a web crawlers: World Wide engine established in 1995. It Jerry Yang and David Filo, eleven versions of Internet that was first developed and engine used Stanford's peer-to-peer messaging January 18, 2000, It is one of encyclopedia with open edit anonymous communication. accessible web search international non-profit began offering IT social networking service that database founded by freeware and intelligent personal assistant media (instant messaging, voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant created voice-controlled intelligent world was launched as a tool GeoWorks interface followed Web Wanderer, Jump became one of the Yahoo officially launched in Explorer for Windows from popularized by the Israeli with the domain platforms could share the largest Internet access. Wikipedia is the The name is derived from an engine that indexes the full organisation that infrastructure services to where users post and emphasizes protecting scientists who want to cross-platform instant that uses natural language user commerce and payment personal assistant by Microsoft. Cortana can personal assistant service for University students to a year later by AOL for Station, World Wide Web most-used early search 1995 and was one of the 1995 to 2013. (Warner, C) company Mirabilis in 1996. google.stanford.edu, messages, files, music and companies in the world largest and most popular acronym for the original text or metadata of scholarly publishes secret businesses in the form of interact with messages, searchers' privacy and advance the field of science messaging service for interface to answer questions, services) mobile application developed by Google. Google set reminders, recognize connected to the internet. stay connected and Windows. (Warner, C) Worm [11], and RBSE engines, but lost ground to largest search engines in the The name ICQ derives from Google is now the pictures with people around based out of China. (Baidu) general reference work on software project name "The literature across an array of information, news leaks, web services, now called "tweets", restricted to 140 avoiding the of through collaboration. smartphones.[10] It uses make recommendations, and software developed by Now uses a natural language natural voice commands , (Amazon) socialize. (Good, K. D.) spider. (Brin, S. Page, L.) Google and was purchased by 90’s and into the 2000’s. the English phrase "I Seek dominant Global search the world. (Microsoft) the Internet. (Wikipedia) Onion Router”. (Dingledine, R.) publishing formats and and classified media on-demand cloud computing characters. Registered users results. Researhgate has over 15 the Internet to make voice perform actions by delegating Tencent with over 987 million user interface to answer and answer questions using Yahoo! in 2003. (Warner, C) (Warner, C) You". Ownership of ICQ engine. (Google) disciplines. (Google) provided by anonymous platforms for individuals, can post tweets, but those (DuckDuckGo) million members. calls, one to one video requests to a set of Internet users. (Zubairm, P.) questions, make information from the Bing passed from Mirabilis to AOL sources. (Wikileaks) companies and who are unregistered can (Research Gate) calls; send text messages, services. (Zubairm, P.) recommendations, and search engine. (Zubairm, P.) in 1998, and from AOL to governments. (Amazon) only read them. (Misa, T. J. ) images, GIF, videos, perform actions by Mail.Ru Group in 2010. documents, user location, delegating requests to a set (Chan, Z.) audio files, phone contacts of web services. (Zubairm, P.) and voice notes. (Hess, A.)

1995 was a busy year for web crawlers. This year gave birth to four web crawlers: World Wide Web Wanderer, Jump Station, One of the largest search engines in the world says the following Michael Goreman, former President of the American Library World Wide Web Worm], and RBSE spider. The always sexy and in their annual report “The Internet is one of the world’s most Association once said “A professor who encourages the use of interesting automated indexing software that scours the Web for powerful equalizers, and we see it as our job to make it available Wikipedia is the intellectual equivalent of a dietitian who new or updated sites, web crawlers were another layer of the to as many people as possible”. Started as a company that recommends a steady diet of Big Macs for everything With over 900 million users globally, Whatsapp is the most foundation we now have to thank for the sophisticated and wanted to connect all the information online for people to (Jemielniak, D). From its humble beginnings in 2001 to global widely used one-to-one and one-to-many chat applications that seamless experience of searching online. Contemporary crawlers search, Google has connected nations, brought us a global scale domination in 2017, the English version of Wikipedia has grown to lets users users share pictures, documents, locations, videos enable researchers such as Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse, Marc of a business model that exchanges data for services, Google, 5,523,957 articles, equivalent to over 2,500 print volumes of the and make phone calls. Whatsapp was purchased by Facebook Najork and Janet L. Weiner the ability to crawl set of 150 836 209 now named Alphabet as their parent company name makes over Encyclopædia Britannica. Including all language editions, for 19 billion dollars in cash (Albergotti, R). HTML pages once every week, over a span of 11 weeks to analyze 88% of their revenue from and employs over over Wikipedia has over 45 million articles, equivalent to over 19,000 patterns and trends (Fetterly, D). 72,000 full-time staff (Statista). print volumes.