| AD 105 | Cai Lun "invents" paper |
| II Century | The Almagest by Ptolemy |
| 1V Century | "Slow" printing used in China |
| VIII Century | Block printing used in China (whole pages) |
| 751 | Talas river battle: Muslim army defeats a Chinese army. Many Chinese artisans are captured. |
| VIII Century | Paper and printing used in Bhagdad with the help of Chinese artisans |
| 1045 | Bi Sheng invents movable type in China (clay) |
| XII Century | Paper used in Moorish Spain |
| XIV Century | Wood movable type used in China |
| 1448 | Gutenberg had a printing works in Mainz (movable metal type) |
| 1462 | Warfare between two rival archibishops in Mainz |
| 1495 | Aldus Manutius invents the "small" book |
| 1543 | De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi by Nicola Copernicus |
| 1610 | Siderius nuncius by Galileo |
| 1618 | Harmonices mundi by Kepler |
| 1687 | Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica by Isaac Newton |
| 1867 | A ground wood paper factory started in Curtisville, Mass. |
| 1932 | Papebacks (Alabastros Continental Library) |
| 1989 | WWW invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN |
| 1993 | Mosaic browser built by Marc Andreessen |
| 1994 | Netscape browser |
| 3Q 1996 | 36 million people using the WWW |
| 3Q 1996 | WebTV introduced as a mass market product |
Ramón V. León
11/19/96