The Digital Revolution

On 29 October 1969, computer science student Charley Kline at UCLA transmitted the first message over ARPANET — the precursor to the internet — to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute 350 miles away. The intende…

In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, submitted a proposal titled "Information Management: A Proposal" to his supervisor Mike Sendall, who described it as "vague but exciting". The proposal outline…

On 9 January 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the original iPhone at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Jobs called it "a revolutionary and magical product" combining a phone, widescreen iPod, and inte…

On 31 October 2008, a person or group using the name Satoshi Nakamoto published a nine-page paper titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" to a cryptography mailing list. The paper proposed a decentralise…