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| 1965 |
| | | The first communications satellite, Early Bird, is launched from Cape Carnaveral | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs design and market a personal computer, calling it the Apple | |
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| 1983 |
| | | The US system MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) becomes the industry standard for electronic communication in music | |
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| 1989 |
| | | At CERN, in Geneva, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau build ENQUIRE, a first step towards the future World Wide Web | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN in Geneva, publishes the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Tim Berners-Lee, using CERN computers, puts online the first website at http://info.cern.ch | |
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| 1997 |
| | | Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both Ph.D. students at Stanford University, register the domain name google.com | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Wikipedia, the 'Free Encyclopedia', is put online by Jimmy Wales as an empty shell which members of the public are invited to fill with content | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Google pays $1.65 billion for the website YouTube, launched less than two years previously | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Apple's iPhone goes on sale in the USA and 270,000 are sold in the first thirty hours | |
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