2003

Software & Media

Idea

50’s and 60’s

1973Ethernet invented by Robert Metcalfe/

Xerox1977

First PC modem, developed by

Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,

first sold to hobbyists

1978 Al Gore introduces the term “information

superhighway”

1956The first hard disk drive ever launched: IBM Model 350 Disk File comes with IBM 305 RAMAC computer

1966 Douglas Parkhill:Parkhill's book, The Challenge of the Computer Utility, predicts many modern cloud ideas

80’s

90’s

00’s

Future

1964 BASIC is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz

70’s

1969 First message sent on ARPANET: The core network that became the global internet

1971 Email first developed by

Ray Tomlinson

1970 The Floppy Disk invented by Alan Shugart

1981 First IBM-PC invented

MS-DOS invented

Standardised concept of worldwide

interconnected TCP/IP networks (AKA the Internet)

developed

1982

1979

1992

1957

In response to the launch of Sputnik, the US forms the Advanced Research Products Agency

Launch of Mosaic web

browser grants widespread

Internet access

1993

Web commonly used as both public and private file storage

Late 1990’s

1994

First mass commercial spam spread by law firm

Canter and Siegel

John McCarthy:An American computer scientist sees computing as a public utility

Early 60’s

1985

Microsoft releases

Windows1986 First PC

virus found

1988Tim Berners-Lee

writes the proposal for the World Wide Web

1998

Launch of

Napster popularizes file

sharing over the Internet

Launch of Wikipedia

2001

Myspacelaunched

2002Amazon Web Service (AWS)

in the cloud

Facebook and Flickr launched

2004 Popularisation of Web 2.0. John

Batelle and Tim O’Reilly describe the

concept of "the Web as a

Platform"

2005 popularizes free online video hosting and

sharing2006 Google Docs launches, putting millions in direct

contact with the cloud

William Gibson, in his short story “Burning Chrome”, coins the

term "cyberspace"1984

CD-ROM invented

Apple Macintosh

invented

Over 1000 web hosts

300% in ads for full-time cloud computing positions

November 2009 - November 2010

2010

US Government officials begin

mandating cloud adoption

Google can reach 1 trillion web pages, but just a small fraction are indexed by the

search engine

launches catalogue of six million songs,

supported by ads

2008

Gartner says cloud

computing will be as influential as

e-commerce

Launch of Apple iCloud

introduces the concept of the

Unified Cloud Experience

1968

Douglas Engelbart: invents the mouse

Mobile phones invented

First smartphone: IBM Simon

shown as a concept product

Tim Berners-Lee writes the software for world's first web server, which came to be known as CERN

1990

Launch of IMDB online film database

Tim Berners-Lee creates World Wide

Web and Internet protocol HTTP

1995

Windows 95 released with

Internet Explorer

Geocities, free web

hosting site, launches

Launch of Hotmail on

July 4th

First smartphone, Touchscreen

Ericsson R380, released. First

device to use an open OS: Symbian

Dot Com Bust2000

2012

Revenue for cloud services Gartner predicts

$148.8B

€115B

₤96B

2014

The idea of private cloud for each individual becomes popularized.

Sources: Generalhttp://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/modern_5.htm

http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/A-history-of-cloud-computinghttp://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/interactive/2009/oct/23/internet-arpanethttp://www.cloudtweaks.com/2011/02/a-history-of-cloud-computing/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ciscoibsg/6101427547/http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=707508

http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

2013

growth

Hardware

http://www.f-secure.com/content-anywhere

1,000,000 Web Hosts

199720,000,000 Web

Hosts

2011

European Network and Information Security Agency makes Cloud

Computing recommendations for EU governments.

584,000,000 Web Hosts

AUD139.2B

launched, F-Secure offering operators and ISPs the cloud as a service

1 billion users share content in a public cloud on Facebook

Google Drive release expected, entering the content storage market

The idea of a private cloud for each individual becomes popularized

Services like Apple iCloud and Google Drive are tied to mobile phones

Consumers expect to want a personal cloud that they can

control and doesn’t track them.

Privacy issues become more important and people are more willing to pay for it.

Invention of the Pentium processor

Content | Anywhere

Here’s a look at the key breakthroughs that have made the rise of the cloud inevitable.

When computers filled whole rooms, it was difficult to imagine phones more powerful than lunar landers, Star Trek communicators and C3PO put together. Yet even when single computers filled

a room, it seems computer scientists always dreamed of universal storage access in the cloud.