| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1970 | Work on Unix begins. VT 05 introduced. |
| 1971 | First FTP and Telnet implementations. |
| 1973 | TCP development begins. |
| 1978 | VT 100 introduced. |
| 1982 | Sun founded (now). Sun 1 |
| 1983 | BSD Unix ships TCP-IP stack. TCP-IP becomes a government standard. Sun hires Schmidt . |
| 1984 | Work begins on X-windows. X terminal. Apple MacIntosh. Steves, with stache |
| 1985 | MS Windows, Founders, Gates, modeling. |
| 1989 | Object Management Group founded. |
| 1990 | Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). COM provided infrastructure. Tim Berners-Lee develops WWW. |
| 1991 | CORBA 1.1 released. |
| 1992 | Internet opened to commercial traffic. |
| 1993 | Mosaic released. |
| 1994 | Netscape navigator released. Yahoo |
| 1995 | CORBA 2.0 released. IIOP standardized. Gosling introduces Java. |
| 1996 | COM is renamed ActiveX. Brin and Page develop Backrub, in a tub?. Hotmail. |
| 1997 | Java RMI (JDK 1.1). |
| 1998 | DCOM. Google. XML 1.0. |
| 1999 | RSS. Netscape dies. |
| 2000 | Microsoft announces .NET initiative. Chooses SOAP for distributed programming. |
| 2003 | del.icio.us |
| 2004 | Gmail, Firefox |
| 2005 | Ajax coined |