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When was the Internet invented?
- Semaphore lines. Invented: 1684. Widely deployed: 1792
- Electronic telegraph. Invented: 1753. Widely deployed: 1844
- Hypertext: 1945
- Packet switching: Late 1950s, presented 1961.
- Email (on the same server, pre internet): 1965
- ARPANET goes live: 1969
- Proprietary software invented (before, free software was the norm): US vs IBM court case, 1969
- @ adresses invented: 1971
- TCP/IP: 1974
- “Open Letter to Hobbyists” advocating for proprietary software: 1976
- BBS: 1978
- Usenet: 1980
- SMTP: 1981
- GNU project founded: 1983
- FTP: 1985
- IETF founded: 1986
- IRC: 1988
- WWW and http: 1989
- Linux (predating the free BSDs by two years): 1991
- Linux goes free software (GPL): 1992
- FreeBSD and NetBSD (USL v. BSDi lawsuit settled): 1993
- Mosaic (funded by Al Gore): 1991, released 1993
- Page-body-grepping WWW search engines: 1993
- 10 million people online: 1993
- I first go online (at work, and later, more regularly, at the library): 1995
- OpenBSD: 1995
- JavaScript: 1995
- LAMP stack (free OS + server + database + scripting language), last puzzle piece Apache: 1995
- Cell phones with Internet access: 1996
- Cascading Style Sheets: 1996
- I get my own modem! Ouch phone bills. Internet mostly IRC, usenet, mailing lists: 1996
- ECMAScript 3 (basis of modern JavaScript): 1999
- BitTorrent: 2001
- XMLHttpRequest object (“AJAX” or “Web 2.0”): debutes 2000, widely used 2002
- HTML 5 (yesss!!!! death of Flash!): 2014
- Over half of Earth population have access: 2018
It’s not wrong to say “before the Internet” when talking about the 90s. I think they mean “before most people in my own life / circle of acquaintances had the habit or ability to easily look up the particular thing I’m talking about right now”. And that’s true.
We live in an age of rapid change (and by “age” I mean post the plague “Black Death” in the late 1340s). So many things are being invented daily. Talking about the past gets weird. Even for someone like me who mostly tries to live unplugged, without smart phone or TV, even still every day is affected by technology and new inventions.
Obviously, research regarding technological unemployment is as vital today as further refinement or production of labor-saving and comfort-giving devices.