Published in the Italy by BeccoGiallo, Padua, 2011

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1837
1971
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. The Yippie publishes the first magazine
of phone hacking, YIPL / TAP.
1876
Alexander Graham Bell invents the phone. 1972
In order to coordinate programming
1957
work of ARPANET, a system of digital
The Advanced Research Projects communication at a distance is developed,
Agency (ARPA, and later DARPA) which is read using Basic language. It is
passes under the control of US Ministry called electronic mail or e-mail.
of Defense.
1972
1961
Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf develop
The MIT buys PDP1 (computer with the TCP / IP protocol.
screen and keyboard).A group of
students, passionate of model railway, 1972
use it secretly to control exchanges. It Pong, the first video game for bar use,
is the first case of hacking.
is born.
1962
1973
The same Students create Space War, The Texas Instruments launches
first video game of ever.
DataMath, The first pocket calculator
in history.
1969
Four computers were connected to 1975
each other creating ARPANET. In the Altair 8800, the first personal computer
following months, the network expands (PC) of ever, is sold as a kit.
linking research centers and universities.
1975
1970
Bill Gates sells software for Altair 8800,
The NCP protocol was developed, based on the principle that software
making it possible to create applications must be shared, and free.
for the network.

1976
The first Apple computer (Apple I) is
released on the market. The architects
are two young boys, Steve Jobs and
Steve Wozniak, that was a hacker.

1982
Coming out of the movie Tron is on screen.

1982
birth of EUnet (European UNIX
Network).The first connections are
1977
made between the Netherlands,
Two students from Chicago invent the Denmark, Sweden and UK.
modem.
1982
1977
Released in the U.S. the Commodore 64.
Commodore launches PET 2001 one
of the first successes of consumer 1984
electronics.
Birth of the DNS system.
1978
1983
Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss Coming out of the movie Wargames.
create the first bulletin board system, BBS.
1984
1979
UK gives life to JANET a network to
Born USENET.
connect University centers.
1980
1984
The TCP / IP protocol is classified as The U.S. Congress approves the
priority protocol in the U.S. defense system. Comprehensive Crime Control Act,
which gives to USSS (U.S. intelligence)
1980
the jurisdiction over credit cards and
Market release of the Sinclair ZX-80, computer fraud.
the first PC under $ 200.
1984
1981
Richard Stallman created the Free
Commodore VIC 20 gets on the market. Software Foundation.
1982
1985
The writer William Gibson coins the Internet (name given to the network)
term cyberspace.
becomes a priority for world scientific
research, mainly due to e-mail, BBS
and forums.

1985
1993
The domains assignment begins. The The online websites in the world are 623.
first is symbolics.com.
1994
1985
Netscape markets its first browser. It
Launch of the first BBS police trap. is also the first application directly
Later other ones will be created.
down-loadable from Internet.
1988
1996
IANA - the Internet Assigned Numbers The online websites worldwide are
Authority - settlement is registered.
over 100,000.
1988
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is born.

1997
the online websites worldwide are over
one million users are estimated around
100 million.

1989
The World Wide Web project (Www)
is presented by Tim Berners-Lee at 1997
CERN of Geneva.
The NASA website dedicated to
Pathfinder robot mission on Mars 1990
that transmitted live images from
World.std.com is the first commercial the red planet - records, in the first 4
provider in internet history.
days, more than 100 million accesses.
NASA is forced to create twenty-five
1990
mirror sites to be able to manage the
Mitch Kapor and Barlow found the data traffic.
Electronic Frontier Foundation.
1998
1991
The online websites worldwide are 3.7
Linus Torvalds creates the new million.
operating system LINUX.
1999
1992
The number of websites reaches the
Jean Armour Polly coined the sum of 10 million.
expression to surf on Internet.
1993
The browser Mosaic is launched.