Long Description of W3C10 Timeline Graphic

This timeline graphic produced for W3C's Tenth Anniversary Celebration displays the following types of information chronologically:

Pre-Internet, Internet, Web, W3C Event timeline

Before 1989

1945: Vannevar Bush article In Atlantic Monthly about a photo-electrical mechanical device called a Memex, for memory extension, which could make and follow links between documents on microfiche
1960: J.C.R. Licklider, Man Computer Symbiosis
1962: Douglas Englebart publishes "AUGMENTING HUMAN INTELLECT: A Conceptual Framework"
1965: Ted Nelson coins the term "Hypertext" in "A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate". 20th National Conference, New York, Association for Computing Machinery
1968: Douglas Englebart demonstrates Online System (NLS).
1969: Advanced Research Projects Agency commissions ARPANET to conduct research on networking. First ARPANET nodes connected.
1971: Ray Tomlinson of BBN creates email program to send messages across a distributed network.
1972: Tomlinson expands program to ARPANET users, using the "@" sign as part of the address.
1974: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection", which specified in detail the design of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
1978: Part of TCP splits off, becoming the Internet Protocol (IP).
1980: While consulting for CERN, Tim Berners-Lee writes a notebook program, "Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything", which allows links to be made between arbitrary nodes.
1984: Paul Mockapetris introduces Domain Name System (DNS).

1989 to 1993

Mar 1989: "Information Management: A Proposal" written by Tim Berners-Lee and circulated for comments at CERN.
May 1990: Information Management: A proposal, version 2 published.
End 1990: Development begins for first browser (called "WorldWideWeb"), editor, server, and line-mode browser. Culminates in first Web client-server communication over Internet in December 1990.
Dec 1991: Hypertext '91 Conference in San Antonio, Texas (USA). TBL paper on Web only accepted as poster session.
Dec 1991: First Web server outside of Europe set up at Stanford University (originally incorrectly listed on timeline graphic as 1992; now fixed).
Jun 1992: TimBL visits Xerox, hosted by Larry Masinter.
Aug 1992: TimBL visits MIT/LCS hosted by Karen Sollins.
Jan 1993: Number of browsers increasing and includes Midas, Erwise, Viola, and Samba.
Mar 1993: NCSA releases first alpha version of Mosaic for X Windows.
Apr 1993: CERN agrees to allow anyone to use Web protocol and code royalty-free.
Jun 1993: Dale Dougherty of O'Reilly hosts WWW Wizards Workshop in Cambridge Massachusetts, USA
Nov 1993: At a Newcastle, U.K. conference, Tim Berners-Lee discusses the future of the Web with MIT's David Gifford, who suggests that Tim contact Michael Dertouzos.

1994 to 1997

1994: Mark Andreessen and colleagues leave NCSA to form Mosaic Communications Corp., which later became Netscape.
1994: Traditional dial-up systems (CompuServe, AOL, Prodigy) begin to provide Internet access.
Feb 1994: Tim Berners-Lee meets Michael Dertouzos in Zurich to discuss possibility of starting new organization at MIT
Apr 1994: Alan Kotok, then at DEC, visits CERN to discuss creation of Consortium
1 Oct 1994: W3C created.
Apr 1995: INRIA becomes W3C Host in Europe.
Jun 1995: First W3C Workshop, on Content Rating; leads to PICS.
Jun 1996: In response to "Peabody meeting" W3C forms Process ERB
Sep 1996: Keio University becomes W3C Host in Asia.
1997: W3C publishes first W3C Recommendation for HTML — HTML 3.2.

1995: Graphics, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Style
1996: Math, Extensible Markup Language (XML)
1997: Document Object Model (DOM), Patent Policy, Privacy, Synchronized Multimedia, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
1998: Internationalization
1999: Voice Browser
2000: URI
2001: Device Independence, Semantic Web, XML Key Management, Quality Assurance
2002: Multimodal Interaction, Web Services
2003: XForms
2004: Compound Document Formats

Communications Team
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