1900 Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, 1901 Cubism, 1902 Relativity (Einstein), 1903 Wright Brothers Flight, 1904 Fauvism, 1905 Special Relativity & Photoelectric Effect, 1906 Quantum of Action (Planck), 1907 Picasso's Les Demoiselles, 1908 Futurism Manifesto, 1909 Model T Assembly Line, 1910 Expressionism, 1911 Rutherford Atomic Nucleus, 1912 Kandinsky's Non-Objective Art, 1913 Bohr Atomic Model, 1914 Duchamp's Readymades, 1915 Relativity General Theory, 1916 Dadaism, 1917 Russian Revolution & Constructivism, 1918 De Stijl, 1919 Bauhaus Founded, 1920 Surrealism, 1921 Monte Carlo Method, 1922 Ulysses (Joyce), 1923 Quantum Mechanics Matrix, 1924 Wave Mechanics (de Broglie), 1925 New Objectivity, 1926 Uncertainty Principle, 1927 Big Bang Theory, 1928 Penicillin, 1929 Black Mountain College Precursor, 1930 Pluto & Psychoanalysis Peak, 1931 Gödel Incompleteness, 1932 Neutron Discovery, 1933 Nazi Degenerate Art, 1934 Nuclear Fission, 1935 Abstract Expressionism Seeds, 1936 Turing Machine, 1937 Nylon & Picasso Guernica, 1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast, 1939 DDT & WWII Mobilization, 1940 Cybernetics Foundations, 1941 Abstract Expressionism, 1942 First Nuclear Reactor, 1943 ENIAC, 1944 DNA Genetic Material, 1945 Atomic Bomb, 1946 Information Theory (Shannon), 1947 Transistor, 1948 Wiener's Cybernetics, 1949 Pollock Drip Paintings, 1950 Turing Test, 1951 Situationist International, 1952 DNA Double Helix, 1953 Happenings, 1954 Pop Art Emergence, 1955 Minimalism Seeds, 1956 Dartmouth AI Conference, 1957 Sputnik & Conceptual Art, 1958 Integrated Circuit, 1959 Fluxus, 1960 Cyborg Concept (Clynes & Kline), 1961 Performance Art, 1962 Silent Spring, 1963 Fluxus & Op Art, 1964 Minimalism (Judd), 1965 ARPANET Vision, 1966 Structuralism Peak, 1967 Post-Minimalism, 1968 Dematerialization of the Art Object, 1969 Moon Landing, 1970 Land Art, 1971 Microprocessor, 1972 Video Art, 1973 Recombinant DNA, 1974 Institutional Critique, 1975 Relational Aesthetics Seeds, 1976 Apple I & Postmodernism, 1977 Voyager Golden Record, 1978 Haraway Cyborg Manifesto (early), 1979 Compact Disc, 1980 HIV & Simulation Theory, 1981 IBM PC, 1982 TCP/IP, 1983 Internet, 1984 Macintosh & Postmodern Condition, 1985 Windows, 1986 Hypertext, 1987 World Wide Web Proposal, 1988 Chaos Theory Popularized, 1989 Berlin Wall & Net Art, 1990 Human Genome Project, 1991 WWW Public Release, 1992 Virtual Reality, 1993 Mosaic Browser, 1994 Netscape & Relational Art, 1995 eBay & BioArt, 1996 Dolly the Sheep, 1997 Deep Blue, 1998 Google, 1999 Wi-Fi, 2000 Human Genome Draft, 2001 Wikipedia, 2002 iPod, 2003 Social Media Art, 2004 Facebook, 2005 YouTube, 2006 CRISPR, 2007 iPhone, 2008 Bitcoin & Speculative Realism, 2009 Deep Learning, 2010 iPad, 2011 Arab Spring & Post-Internet Art, 2012 Higgs Boson, 2013 CRISPR-Cas9, 2014 AlphaGo, 2015 Paris Agreement & Algorithmic Art, 2016 Gravitational Waves, 2017 Transformer Architecture, 2018 GDPR & NFT Precursors, 2019 mRNA Vaccines, 2020 COVID mRNA & Digital Twin, 2021 Metaverse, 2022 Generative AI (DALL-E), 2023 Prompt Engineering, 2024 AlphaFold3 & AI Art Explosion, 2025 Quantum Supremacy Milestones, 2026 Socioplastics
