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Computer History Museum: Timeline of Computer History

The Computer History Museum offers this outstanding online timeline, which ranges from the first proposal of electronic data storage in 1945 to the birth of the World Wide Web in 1990. "Each year features illustrated descriptions of significant innovations in hardware and software technology, as well as milestones in areas such as commercial applications and artificial intelligence." There is also...

https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/
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Digital Archaeology

What exactly is digital archaeology? It's the documentation of the "formative years of digital culture" and it all happens right here on this site. Digital Archaeology was unveiled in London as part of Internet Week Europe 2010, bringing together a selection of sites to promote the concept of digital preservation. The main focus here is "Error 404," an exhibition that celebrates the golden age of...

http://digital-archaeology.org/
Hobbes' Internet Timeline

This site, provided by Robert H'obbes' Zakon, is a concise hyperlinked history of the Internet beginning with the formation of the US Defense Department's ARPA (Advanced Research Products Agency) in 1957. As can be expected, entries are more detailed for the later years of the timeline. Beginning in 1995, the author provides his list of the technologies of the year. Country domain registrations...

https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/