society of algorithm - timeline of art

http://societyofalgorithm.org/networktime/

a great timeline/matrix of art from the 1920ies up to now

Computerkunst

http://www.computerkunst.org/

Website of Christoph Klütsch,
with a timeline of early exhibitions of computer art (http://www.computerkunst.org/exhibitions.html), a bibliography (http://www.computerkunst.org/Lit_early_dig_computerart.html), a linklist to artists' websites and especially: http://www.computerkunst.org/Kluetsch_Art_Metaphysics_2006.pdf

Trebor Scholz: History of the Social Web

http://molodiez.org/soc_web_his_TreborScholz.pdf timeline

article:
http://www.collectivate.net/journalisms/2007/9/26/a-history-of-the-social-web.html

Video Formats Timeline

Stanford again :)

timeline of video formats

http://videopreservation.stanford.edu/vid_id/56-70home.html
http://videopreservation.stanford.edu/vid_id/70-85home.html
http://videopreservation.stanford.edu/vid_id/85-now.html

also, don't miss this:

http://videopreservation.stanford.edu/museum/index.html#VideoGoesPortable

The Quest for Home Video

+ timeline

http://www.terramedia.co.uk/video/index.htm
http://www.terramedia.co.uk/video/video_chronology.htm

SIMILE's Timeline

"Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Below is a live example that you can play with. Pan the timeline by dragging it horizontally"

http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

an Open Source tool by SIMILE (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments) @ MIT:

http://simile.mit.edu/

A Film Sound History Timeline on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_film

Pictorial History of Media Technology

http://www.cedmagic.com/history/index.html

The Dead Media Manifesto, Bruce Sterling

"The new media environment is aswarm with lumbering toothy digital mammals. It's all lynxes here, and gophers there, plus big fat venomous webcrawlers, appearing in Pleistocene profusion."