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1 1937 #
- J. R. R. Tolkien이 "호비트"를 출간.
- Dr Cat adds, "I personally would like to see Lord Dunsany mentioned to counter any notion that Tolkien invented swords and sorcery. Even if everyone including the D&D authors were obsessed with him (and of course everyone after the D&D authors was obsessed with D&D)."
4 1960 #
- Ted Nelson gets the idea for hypertext as we know it now. He won't coin the word until 1963, and the word won't see print until 1965. He works alone on the concept throughout the decade, choosing the term Xanadu for his project in 1967.
5 1961 #
- University of Illinois introduces and patents PLATO, "Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations", a network running on the ILLIAC computer system.
- "The nation's first computer-assisted program of instruction. PLATO, conceived by physics professor Chalmers Sherwin and developed under the direction of electrical engineering professor Don Bitzer, co-inventor of the plasma display panel, was the world's first time-shared computer-based education system" according to the UI website.
- "The name PLATO was originally just a name, not an acronym. Someone invented the acronym sometime in the 1970's, which was never officially endorsed, but someone printed it anyway." - Eric Hagstrom
7 1963 #
- BBN이 Modem 특허발표.
- Thomas Marill, Daniel Edwards, Wallace Feurzig에 의해 모뎀기반 연결 네트워크의 개념을 실은 논문 발표.
8 1965 #
- According to Richard J. Auld, the concept of the "FAQ" is developed on PLATO.
- According to the Cyberpunk Timeline, "MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts & Thomas Merrill connected A TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32 in Palo Alto, California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first (however small) wide-area computer network ever built. (Jan.)"
