1995

• August -- Craig Keefner takes over as moderator for Arthur on the CIK Newsgroup
  
• Study -- Jan. 1995 report by Los Alamos on internet kiosks
  
• Sun launches JAVA on May 23.
  
• Newsgroup archives
  
• Patient Kiosk at Columbia University
  

1994

• Elographics changes name to Elo TouchSystems
  
• Netscape developed and refined a new way to distribute software when it made the first copies of Netscape
  Navigator client software available for download over the Internet.
  
• Yes, it's true - you can now order pizza from Pizza Hut online

• First Virtual, the first cyberbank, open up for business
  
• The first banner ads appear on hotwired.com in October. They were for Zima (a beverage) and AT&T.
  
• Francie Mendelsohn and Summit Research are founded.
  

1993

• KIS (Kiosk Information Systems) in Colorado is founded. Over next 7 years over 500 applications delivered.
  
• InterNIC created by NSF to provide specific Internet services.
  
• US White House comes on-line (http://www.whitehouse.gov/
  
• Mark Andreesen of National Center for SuperComputing Applications, Illinois (NCSA) launched Mosaic X. It was
  the first easy to install, easy to use browser and, significantly, was backed by 24-hour customer support. It
  also enormously improved the graphic capabilities (by using 'in-line imaging' instead of separate boxes) and
  installed many of the features that are familiar through browsers such as Netscape�s Navigator (which is the
  successor company established by Andreesen to exploit Mosaic) and Microsoft�s Internet Explorer. In December
  1993 there were 623 web sites worldwide.
  

1992

• The term "surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly
  
• Robert Buckhorn founds Holly Systems on the first kiosk companies.
  

1991

• MarCole is established by Ron Coleman and Sandy Markus.
  
• Gopher released by Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill from the Univ of Minnesota
  World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer
  
• First Kiosk displayed as product at Comdex. Missing children application.
  

1990

• The first remotely operated machine to be hooked up to the Internet, the Internet Toaster by John
  Romkey, (controlled via SNMP) makes its debut at Interop. pictures
  
• Tim Berners-Lee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in consultation with CERN, the European Organization for
  Nuclear Research based in Switzerland, wrote the first GUI browser, and called it �WorldWideWeb� with Robert
  Cailliau. It ran on the NeXT computer. Tim is widely regarded as being the inventor of the World Wide
  Web, �WWW� or �web� for short.
  

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1989

• Windows 3.0 Debuts

• July: Windows 3.0B shown at PC Expo. Craig is at Northgate booth showing 3.0B with beta video driver from
  VideoLogic with multiple windows of Top Gun. He watches Top Gun 106 times over next 3 days.

• Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll tells the real-life tale of a German cracker group who infiltrated
  numerous US facilities
  

1988

• First Windows touchscreen driver by MicroTouch (Windows 2.11?)
  
• Craig is working for Western Geophysical and Windows is being used for acoustic signature analysis onboard
  seismic vessels. 386s are being used for onsite data analysis.
  

1987

• Two new technologies were purchased by Elo. The surface acoustic wave product, named IntelliTouch, was
  purchased from Zenith. Early in 1988, a production facility was established in California to manufacture and sell
  this product. The other technology was purchased from Kennedy Technology. This product was a four-wire
  resistive technology and was subsequently named DuraTouch. This product line has since been phased out.

• Francie wins car on gameshow and tries to trade it in for money. Ends up with sapphire blue MX-6.
  

1986

• Factura is founded (enclosures). Next 12 years over 45,000 enclosures to be delivered.
  
• Elo is acquired by Raychem
  
• First Mac touchscreen introduced by MicroTouch
  

1985

• Intel delivers the 386
  
• ByVideo (Harvey Smythe) and pre-MarCole tean do the Florsheim project. Arguably the first major kiosk project ever given several 100 stores it covered.
  
• MicroTouch introduces capacitive touchscreen
  

1984

• Domain Name System (DNS) introduced
  
• First touch monitor from MicroTouch
  

1983

• Lexitech (later became Netkey) was founded in the basement of the Yale School of Management
  

1982

• MicroTouch is founded.
  
• The term 'Internet' is used for the first time.
  
• Elographics displayed 33 televisions covered with the new transparent touch-sensitive panels in the US Pavilion
  at the 1982 World�s Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee. For many people this was the first opportunity to see or use a
  touchscreen!
  
• September 19th : the first use of the emoticon :-) known as Smiley appears on
  Carnegie Mellon BBS
  

1981

• Minitel (Teletel) is deployed across France by France Telecom.
  
• The event that really got bar code into industrial applications occurred September 1, 1981 when the United States Department of Defense adopted the use of Code 39 for marking all products sold to the United States military. This system was called LOGMARS,.

1981

• Minitel (Teletel) is deployed across France by France Telecom.
  

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1979

• Intel delivers the 8088 (BM chooses it)
  

1978

• Intel delivers the 8086
  
• Craig is working in Venezuela with VAX 11/780s and DCL/Fortran
  

1977

• Elo hires a full time president, Bill Gibson, was hired. Bill was excellent at getting start-up companies
  going. Those of us who worked with Bill remember his motto of�wood is good�. From then on things seemed to
  look up for the company. Soon after Bill Gibson joined Elographics, Siemens Corporation came to us and offered to back
  Elo in the development of a curved glass sensor, which later was called a touchscreen, as it was activated by touch.
  

1976

• Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom sends out an email on 26 March from the Royal Signals and Radar
  Establishment (RSRE) in Malvern
  

1974

• In June 1974, one of the first UPC scanner, made by NCR Corp. (which was then called National Cash Register Co), was installed at Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio. On June 26, 1974, the first product with a bar code was scanned at a check-out counter. It was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum. The pack of gum wasn't specially designated to be the first scanned product. It just happened to be the first item lifted from the cart by a shopper whose name is long since lost to history. Today, the pack of gum is on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
  

1973

• Craig graduates from high school.
  

1972

• Intel delivers the 8008
  

1971

• Elographics, Inc. was founded by ten stockholders in March, 1971, to produce
  Graphical Data Digitizers for use in research and industrial applications, with the
  principal being Dr. Sam Hurst. He was on leave from the Oak Ridge National
  Laboratory to teach at the University of Kentucky for two years, where he was faced
  with a need to read a huge stack of strip chart data. It would have taken two graduate
  students approximately two months to do the task. He started thinking of a way to read
  the charts, and during the process, the �Elograph� (electronic graphics) coordinate
  measuring system and Elographics the company were born. The University of
  Kentucky Research Foundation applied for and was granted a patent on the
  Elograph. The Foundation granted an exclusive license to Elographics.
  

1966

• Marshall McLuhan writes, "Xerography is bringing a reign of terror into the world of publishing.."
  
  Copyrights are now a concern.
  

1961

• Frost and Sullivan is founded.
  

1960

• Xerox (was Haloid) ships the 914 Copier. Sold for $29,000 and weighed 648 pounds.
  
  They leased it for $95/month with first 2000 copies free then a nickel a copy.

• Haloid gets patent on xerography
  

1955

• Seeburg and Emerson release their "telejuke" which is sold to bars and includes a TV and a jukebox in
  a single enclosure. Click here
  for info [Thanks to Billy Giaimo of Wireless e-business Solutions
  

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Credits

• Robert Buckhorn -- Holly Systems

• Tim Daw -- Netshift
  
• Dave Heyliger -- Rocky Mountain Multimedia