30,000 BC 3,400-3,200 BC 77 AD 300-325 AD Late 1100’s 1440 1600’s Mid 1800’s 1835 1835 1876 1946 1965 1967 1971 1991 Search Store Knowledge Timeline Share Cave Drawings Hieroglyphics Encyclopedia Libraries Scriptorium Printing Press Newspapers Public Libraries Morse Code Radio Telephone Television Hyperlink ARPANET Floppy Disc World Wide Web 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 news 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). BEFORE WWW AFTER WWW 1991 1995 1995 1996 1996 1998 1999 2001 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006 2006 2008 2008 2009 2011 2011 2012 2014 2014 Search Store Share AOL Web Crawlers AltaVista Yahoo Internet Explorer ICQ Google MSN Messenger Baidu Wikipedia Tor Network Facebook Google Scholar Wikileaks Amazon (AWS) Twitter 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 instant messaging client Originally the search One of the first ever Baidu, Inc., incorporated on Wikipedia is a free online Tor is free software 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 search engine 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 website 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.