Gutenberg's movable-type press
Combining metal movable type, oil-based ink and a screw press, Gutenberg printed the 42-line Bible; within decades presses spread across Europe.
Humanity
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Bacon programs the scientific project
Francis Bacon's Novum Organum proposed knowledge as a collective, cumulative enterprise: observation, experiment, tables of instances, organized institutions.
The World Wide Web opens to everyone
Tim Berners-Lee's CERN project — URLs, HTTP, HTML — was released royalty-free; by 1993 Mosaic made it visual, and the web took over the internet.
Chronology
Gutenberg's movable-type press
Combining metal movable type, oil-based ink and a screw press, Gutenberg printed the 42-line Bible; within decades presses spread across Europe.
Bacon programs the scientific project
Francis Bacon's Novum Organum proposed knowledge as a collective, cumulative enterprise: observation, experiment, tables of instances, organized institutions.
The World Wide Web opens to everyone
Tim Berners-Lee's CERN project — URLs, HTTP, HTML — was released royalty-free; by 1993 Mosaic made it visual, and the web took over the internet.