ARPA(Advanced Research Projects Agency) is made by Dwight D. Eisenhower because of the Soviet Sputik launch, and Jack Kilby makes the worlds first integrated circut.

Mainframes were the old way of computer communication, where a main "parent computer controlled everything, and could easily be taken out to shut down the whole nation."

Paul Baran makes a "hive mind" plan where computers rely on each other rather than on a single "parent" to promote reliability.

Jack Ruina becomes head of ARPA, now called DARPA(D is for defense).

Joseph Licklider starts the path of AI, and has all credit stolen by people who worked less hard but wanted more credit.

Syncom 3 is the first satelite to be sent to space, and have it stay there until it's warranty death, not burning in the atmosphere.

Joseph Licklider goes elsewhere to better opportunities, leaving Ivan Sutherland in charge.

Manfred Borner makes the world's first fiber - optic cable, that uses laser beams instead of electricity to transmit data.

Bob Taylor takes over DARPA.

Eberhart Rechtin takes over DARPA.

VCR's, Video Cassette Players, start becoming more mainstream, which are devices that use magnetic tape to store data in magnetic imprints on the "tape" or "film".

Charley Kline sent the world's first message over the ARPANET, trying to do: L-O-G-I-N, but he only did L-O- before the system crashed.

John Draper is the world's first person to be known as a modern: "hacker", who tricked phones into getting free calls.

Alan Shugart creates the world's first floppy disk, and the ARPANET is complete.

"Pong" becomes the world's first commercially successful game, but could only be played on a certain device, with the factory programming pre-installed.

Bob Metcalfe makes the ethernet cable, a standardized organization of copper wires in a single cable, that is optimized for internet communication.

The world population reaches four billion, half of what it is today.

Bill Gates makes microsoft for commercial technology sale, and the first interface message boards are made to send data from computer to computer(ancient wi-fi).

Apple is founded by Steve Jobs to make a luxury device company in direct competition with Microsoft. VHS is also a new technology ripped off of VCS and VTR, but a lot more accessible and standardized for consumer use.

Star Wars becomes the first movie ever to use CGI(computer generated images), and Robert Fossum becomes the head of DARPA.

The IPSS(International Packet Switched Service) is made to communicate with other countries instantly, in advancement of the former telegraph communication.

CompuServe makes the world's first message system that really worked, the very first glimmer that e - mail might exist.

CB Simulator is made by Alexander Trevor(from CompuServe), where users can message each other in real - time, even faster than e-mail. This was the first online multiplayer "game" ever made.

Robert Cooper becomes the head of DARPA

The CD(compact disk) is made as a competitor to the VHS, where a fine plastic uses laser ingraved notches as data to be read by a laser, saving several times more data per square millimeter than a VHS tape.

Ethernet beats fiber - optic cables for the internet standard, favoring quantity over qualoty, and the ARPANET gets split between military and civiallian use, making TCP(Transfer Control Protocol) the standard data sharing procedure.

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X is released, the world's first mobile phone, that weighed a brick, looked like a brick, and cost several thousand bricks

NeXT is founded by Steve Jobs to get his job back after being fired, and he also makes Pixar, and several other monumental companies, and the Windows 1.0 operating system is released.

There are now about 30,000 users of the internet, but it is very messy and disorganized, with no safety, no encription, and no standard transfer protocols.

The world population hits 5 billion, a 25% increase in 13 years.

The first fiber - optic cables are laid under the ocean for international communication at the speed of LIGHT, with no chance of external interference or hackers tapping in on signals. NeXT also makes: "the cube", a computer that Tim Berners-Lee would use to make the world wide web(the standard page - sharing system that uses the internet as a backbone)

The ARPANET is killed, replaced by better private companies, like the National Science Foundation Network.

Alan Emtage makes Archie, the world's first search engine(like google) that gives users websites that match what they are looking for, instead of brute forcing through every website on the internet.

People start getting a strong hype for the new advancments, and the .com bubble in the stock market starts to grow

Gary Denman becomes the head of DARPA

HTML is developed as the standard way to program a website into existance, and set up basic "elements".

Jefferey Bezos establishes Amazon, a company that can manage and ship items that customers order online, forever changing how people buy goods, now from their home, to their home, in a single day.

Windows 95 is released, one of the most famous operating systems ever, Toy Story is released as the first fully - CGI movie by Pixar, and JavaScript is developed to control the different "elements" in a HTML document.

CSS is released to format the "elements" on an HTML page, to make JavaScript even easier. NeXT gets bought by Apple, and the DVD(Digital Video Disc) is developed as a competitor to the CD, getting 4 times more information per square millimeter than a CD.

Vic Hayes makes Wi - Fi(Wireless Fidelity), which lets people use the internet without plugging in to an ethernet cable, by using radio waves to communicate with devices that can recieve radio waves, within 100 yards of the beacon.

Robert Morris makes a computer worm(the world's first computer virus) to prove a point about internet safety, but goes to prison insead. Larry Page and Sergey Brin also make Google, the world's most advanced search engine today.

The world population reached 6 billion, a 20% increase in 12 years.

The .com bubble bursts, and Steve Jobs makes the Mac OS X, the most advanced computer operating system yet.