Robert Miller and Maj. Their prediction was accurate. 1952 First commercial jet transportation, from London to Johannesburg. 1954 Texas Instruments starts commercial production of silicon transistors. 1956 IBM invents the first computer disk using random access storage.
Construction begins on USA's interstate highway system.
1989 Archie, the first internet searching utility, developed. 1991 Gopher, the internet's first easily-employed user interface, developed at the University of Minnesotta. World Wide Web, graphical user interface for the internet, established. 1995 National Science Foundation ceases funding for the backbone of the internet. The bug results from computer programs with date codes reflecting only the last two numbers in the 4-digit year.