The following material was presented by Zachary Kaplan, editor of Rhizome.org, during Laurel Schwulst's Interactive Design class at Yale on February 8, 2015.
Kit Galloway, Sherrie Rabinowitz, Hole in Space (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyIJJr6Ldg8
The Thing, BBS organized by Wolfgang Staehle (1991)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(art_project)
1993 — Eternal September
1994 — Netscape Navigator, GeoCities
Trojan Coffee Cup Cam (1991/1993)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
Douglas Davis, The World's First Collaborative Sentence (1994)
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Artport/DouglasDavis
Jodi.org (1995)
http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/
DIA launches online exhibitions platform (
1995)
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/56398/timeline.html
1996 — rhizome.com
1996 — Adobe Flash
Olia Lialina, My Boyfriend Came Back from the War (1996)
http://www.teleportacia.org/war/
mouchette.org (1996)
http://mouchette.org
1997 — Carnivore; FBI surveillance tool for networks
Alexei Shulgin, Form Art (1997)
http://www.c3.hu/collection/form/
Heath Bunting, Read Me (1998)
http://www.irational.org/_readme.html
Mark Napier, Riot (1999)
http://potatoland.org/riot/
1999 — Napster; high-speed cable internet affordability
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, Bust Down the Door (2000)
http://archive.rhizome.org/splash/Y-H_Chang/BUST_DOWN_THE_DOOR.html
Eva and Franco Mattes, Life Sharing (2000-2003)
http://0100101110101101.org/life-sharing/
1999-2001 — Dot com bubble bursting
June 26, 2000: Google becomes the most popular search engine
August 2000 — deviantart.com
October 2001 — Patriot Act
2001 — Bit Torrent
Cory Arcangel, Super Mario Clouds (2002)
http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/supermarioclouds/
2002 — Friendster
Whitney Museum Artport (Launched 2002)
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Artport
2003 — MySpace; del.icio.us; Second Life
2004 — The Facebook
2005 — Google Reader
Thomson and Craighead, Beacon (2005)
http://www.automatedbeacon.net
2006 — Twitter / Modern Google Maps
Cory Arcangel, Gif (2006)
http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/2006-019-handmadegif
VVORK, 2006-2012 [BERLIN]
http://www.vvork.com
Nasty Nets surf club (2006)
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53981/nastynets.com
Spirit Surfers surf club (2008)
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery
Cory Arcangel, Sans Comic (2008)
http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/2008-079-sans-comic
2007 — Guthrie Lonergan's Hackers vs. Defaults
http://guthguth.blogspot.com/2007/01/hacking-defaults-hacking-nintendo.html
Petra Cortright, VVEBCAM (2007)
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53474/vvebcam.html
June 6, 2007 — the iPhone is released
2008 — Tumblr
JODI, GEO GOO (2008)
http://geogoo.net
November 2, 2008 — Contemporary Art Daily
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com
The Jogging, founded 2009 (Brad Troemel, Lauren Christensen) [CHICAGO]
http://thejogging.tumblr.com
Kari Altmann, Ruins (2009-)
http://r-u-ins.org
October 2010 — Instagram
Ryder Ripps's DUMP FM (2010)
http://dump.fm
Oliver Laric, versions (2010)
http://oliverlaric.com/versions.htm
December, 2011 — Zynga IPO
July 2011 — Snapchat
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age, 2011
http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com
May 2013 — Edward Snowden leaks classified documents about bulk data collection to Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras
Amalia Ulman, Excellences and Perfections (2014)
http://webenact.rhizome.org/excellences-and-perfections