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A capsule history of online news and information
systems
by David Carlson
© 1999-2009 All Rights Reserved
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The 1960s
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| Year | U.K. | U.S. & Canada | Europe | Asia/Other |
| 1961 | The computer industry has its first billion dollar year. An estimated 9,300 systems now exist world wide. | |||
| 1962 | Medlars, the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System, one of the world's first computerized information services, opens in the U.S. | |||
| 1962 con't |
U.S. Air Force contracts with Rand Corp. to study computer networking for defense purposes. | |||
| 1963 | Ted Nelson, an author and futurist, coins the word "hypertext." | |||
| 1965 | The word "hypertext" first appears in print in a Vassar College newspaper article about a lecture by Nelson. The date was Feb. 3. | |||
| 1967 | Development of Arpanet, forerunner of the Internet, begins with U.S. Defense Department funding. | |||
| 1967 cont |
Ted Nelson chooses "Xanadu" as the name for a concept of deep-linking hypertext. It is said to be the inspiration for LotusNotes, Hypercard and the World Wide Web. | |||
| 1969 | Dialog, an online database provider, is launched in Palo Alto, Calif., by Lockheed Corp with a single database. By 1982 it grows to 200 databases containing over 70 million records. | |||
| 1969 con't |
Arpanet, forerunner of the modern Internet, begins operation, connecting three universities in California and one in Utah. | |||
| 1969 con't |
CompuServe Information Service launches in Columbus, Ohio, as a computer time-sharing service. |
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