Timeline

Below is a timeline of some significant events in the history of Microsoft and other companies in the technology industry.

1960's | 1970's | 1980-1984 | 1985-1989 | 1990-1994 | 1995 | 1996-1999 | 2000's

1960's

Time Period	Description
Fall, 1964	John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz develop BASIC programming language at Dartmouth University
1969	United States Department of Defense (DoD) commissions construction of ARPANET, the network predecessor to the Internet
January, 1969	Johnson administration, on its last working day in office, files suit against IBM, accusing monopolization of the computer industry