Doug Engelbart prototypes an "online system" (NLS) which does hypertext browsing editing, email, and so on. He invents the first mouse to use with his system.
1970's
DARPA starts research leading to the Internet. Originallyconceved to connect research centres for data exchange, it is later adopted for military purposes. Charles Goldfarb invents SGML. This idea seperates content structure from presentation. Thus the document can be rendered in different ways. HTML, the markup language of the world wide web, is an SGML application. In 1975 Alan Kay produces the first personal computer.
1980's
"Literary Machines"describes project Xanadu:a network, world-wide system for publication, including collections of royalties and inclusion of existing materials. CERN and the US laboratories connected to the internet as the main means of exchanging data between the laboratories.
1990's