overview
primers
snapshots
dates
to 1900
to 1919
to 1939
to 1949
to 1959
to 1969
to 1979
to 1984
to 1989
to 1994
to 1999
to 2004
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Dates
This chronology highlights information technology industry
landmarks over the past 160 years.
The chronology offers a more detailed view of the IT business
than the broader communications timeline
elsewhere on this site.
It centres on corporate developments, with some information
on key regulatory changes and on the telecommunication
industry.
It covers -
maps
For overviews of the ICT industries see in particular
Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of
the Consumer Electronics & Computer Industries
(New York: Free Press 2001) by Alfred Chandler and A
Nation Transformed By Information: How Information Has
Shaped the United States From Colonial Times to the Present
(New York: Oxford Uni Press 2000) coedited with James
Cortada.
There is a deeper examination of particular themes in
James Beninger's Control Revolution: Technological
& Economic Origins of the Information Society (Cambridge:
Harvard Uni Press 1989), Jill Hills' The Struggle
for Control of Global Communication: The Formative Century
(Urbana: Uni of Illinois Press 2002) and JoAnne Yates'
Control Through Communication: The Rise of System In
American Management (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Uni
Press 1993).
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