- 1890 Vannevar Bush is born.
- 1930 MEMEX first thought of.
- 1937 Theodor Holm Nelson is born.
- 1945 "As We May Think" is published in The Atlantic Monthly
- 1945+ Douglas C Engelbart reads Bush's 'As We May Think.'
- 1965 "Hypertext" phrase was coined.
- 1968 NLS The oNLine System was demonstrated.
- 1968 The Mouse was invented.
- 1972 Knowledge Management System team to-be develop ZOG
- 1974 XANADU
- 1980 Tim Berners-Lee programs his personal hypertext system - 'Enquire'
- 1986 SGML introduced by ISO
- 1989 The World Wide Web is born
- 1991 W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
- 1991 HTML
- 1998 XML