History
1665 - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is first published
1869 - Nature publishes its first issue
1947 - Elsevier launches its first international journal: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta
1990 - The World Wide Web is invented
1991 - arXiv, the science preprint server, is founded
1999 - Blogger is founded
2001 - Wikipedia is launched
2002 - The Open Access movement begins
2004 - Facebook is launched
2006 - PLoS One begins publishing; Twitter is launched
2008 - NIH Public Access Policy is mandated; Academia.com is launched; ResearchGate is founded
2010 - Altmetrics Manifesto is written
2012 - F1000 Research, PeerJ, and eLife are all launched
2015 - The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) launches its reapplication process
2016 - TikTok is launched
2018 - Plan S is launched