A Timeline of Cyberculture and Hacker Culture

At http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/hacker.html

A Timeline of Cyberculture and Hacker Culture

An appendix to the book "A History of Silicon Valley"

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(Copyright © 2012 Piero Scaruffi)

Orson Welles broadcasts live a fictitious invasion of the Earth by Martians (1938)
Vannevar Bush: "As We May" (1945)
Norbert Wiener: "Cybernetics" (1948)
John von Neumann: "The general and logical theory of automata" (1948)
Alan Turing: "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (1950)
John McCarthy: artificial intelligence (1956)
J.C.R. Licklider: "Man-Computer Symbiosis" (1960)
Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline: "Cyborgs and Space" (1960)
SRI Intl: Shakey the Robot (1966)
BenoŒt Mandelbrot: "How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension" (1967)
Douglas Engelbart: The mother of all demos (1968)
Frank Malina: Leonardo magazine (1968)
Phillip Dick: "Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep" (1968)
Stanley Kubrick: "2001 A Space Odyssey" (1968)
Dennis Ritchie and Keith Thompson: UNIX (1968)
DARPA: The Arpanet (1969)

1970 - 1979 at http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/hacker.html

The Usenet (1980)
William Gibson: the cyberspace (1982)
John Badham: "War Games" movie (1983)
Bruce Bethke: "Cyberpunk" (1983)
Apple Macintosh (1984)
NASA Ames: Virtual Planetary Exploration Workstation (1984)
Steven Levy: "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" (1984)
MIT Media Lab (1985)
Toshiba T1100, the first mass-market laptop (1985)
Per Bak: "Self-organized criticality" (1987)
Chris Langton: "Artificial Life" (1987)
Robert Morris,: the first computer virus on the Arpanet (1988)
Vernor Vinge: the singularity (1988)
Zentrum f r Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe - ZKM (1989)
Mondo 2000 magazine (1989)
Thomas Ray: ""Evolution and optimization of digital organisms" (1991)
Linus Thorvald: Linux open-source operating system (1991)
Neal Stephenson: the metaverse (1992)
Wired magazine (1993)
Jaron Lanier: "Agents of Alienation" (1995)
SixDegrees social network (1997)
Netflix (1997)
Napster (1999)
Philip Rosedale: Second Life (2003)
Nintendo Wii (2006) that transforms the player's physical movements into movements in the game
Apple iPhone (2007)

(Copyright © 2012 Piero Scaruffi)


See also Timeline of Computing and the book "A History of Silicon Valley" (2010)