The document provides a timeline of key moments in the history of big data and data science from 1991 to 2020. Some of the major events included the birth of the internet in 1991, the launch of Google search engine in 1997, the release of the Hadoop open-source platform in 2005 which revolutionized data processing, and the prediction that the big data market will reach $203 billion by 2020. The timeline shows how digital storage became more cost effective than paper in the 1990s, how data volumes increased exponentially in the 2000s, and how mobile devices surpassed desktops in data access by 2014.

1. A Big Data
Timeline
A timeline of some of the key moments in the history of Big
Data and Data Science 1991 - 2020

2. 1991
Courtesy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, data
and information can now be posted
online for the first time.
THE BIRTH OF THE INTERNET

3. 1996
Digital storage is more cost-effective for
storing data than paper according to R.J.T.
Morris and B.J. Truskowski, in “The Evolution
of Storage Systems.”
DIGITAL TAKES OVER

4. 1997
The Google search engine is launched.
Today, over 40,000 Google searches are
completed every second, or over 3.5
billion in a single day.
GOOGLE LAUNCHES

5. 2003
We create as much data every two
days as we did from the beginning of
time until 2003.
VOLUMES INCREASE

6. 2005
Big Data open-source platform Hadoop is
released. It revolutionised data processing,
allowing near limitless data storage and
processing over multiple clusters.
HADOOP HERO

7. 2007
The number of information bits in the
digital universe eclipses the number of
stars in the physical universe for the
first time.
A GALAXY OF DATA

8. 2008
There is over 9.57 Zettabytes
that’s 9.57 Trillion Gigabytes of data
processed in 2008 by the world's CPUs.
ZETTABYTES

9. 2011
Over 12 million RFID (radio frequency
identification) tags had been sold to
monitor and track goods worldwide by
2011.
RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION

10. 2013
The global Big Data market is said to be
worth $10bn in 2013, and at that time,
was predicted to rise to $54bn by
2017.
GLOBAL MARKET

11. 2014
The number of people accessing the
internet using mobile devices such as
phones and tablets surpasses desktop users
for the first time.
MOBILE DEVICES COME OUT ON TOP

12. 2016
Big Data has grown at such a rate that
90% of the worlds data is said to have
been created in the past two years
alone.
BIGGEST EVER DATA

13. 2016
A whopping 2.5 Quintillion bytes of
data are now created each day.
DAILY DATA

14. 2020
The IDC forecasts that the big data and
analytics market will reach $203 billion
by 2020.
IT’S ONLY GETTING BIGGER…

15. With the market on the rise, it’s looking
good for Big Data professionals around
the world.
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