You might find the slides to a keynote I gave interesting as I basically did a slide by slide "year - event" type thing: https://speakerdeck.com/peterc/i-choo-c

You might find the slides to a keynote I gave interesting as I basically did a slide by slide "year - event" type thing: https://speakerdeck.com/peterc/i-choo-choo-choose-the-web-a-history-of-the-web-and-javascript-1945-2012 https://speakerdeck.com/peterc/i-choo-choo-choose-the-web-a-... To pick some though: 1945 - Vannevar Bush publishes As We May Think, predicting a system like the Web 1965 - Term "hypertext" coined and Douglas Englebart demonstrates the "online system" 1983 - ARPANET moves to TCP/IP, the "Internet" is born 1983-84 - DNS is invented and deployed across the Internet 1985 - Generic top level domains introduced (.com, .net, etc) 1991 - The Web becomes publicly available 1992 - ViolaWWW Web browser released, and first Web server outside of Europe ... actually, just check out the slides as I'm repeating them ;-)