1958
ARPA established after Eisenhower requests funds from Congress.
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1960
Len Kleinrock publishes the first paper on packet-switching ("Man-Computer Symbiosis").
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1962
Paul Baran (RAND Corp) studies packet-switching networks ("On Distributed Communications Networks")
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August, 1962
"On-line Man Computer Communication" published by J.C.R. Licklider and Weldon Clark as the first paper on the Internet concept.
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1964
Len Kleinrock's book, "Communication Nets" provides the network design and queuing theory needed to build packet switched networks, which would be used in designing the ARPANET's communication network.
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March, 1964
Paul Baran's paper "On Distributed Communications Networks" begins the rumor that the Internet was designed to withstand a nuclear war.
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1965
Gordon Moore postulates "Moore's Law".
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Feb. 1965
Larry Roberts at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory receives ARPA contract for the first network experiment.
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October, 1965
First time two computers talked to each other. The experiment took place at Lincoln Labs using packet-switching.
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1966
Bob Taylor thinks his three computers should be connected.
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October, 1966
"Toward a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers" is the first paper on network experiments.
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December, 1966
ARPAnet design begins. The program was proposed to Congress in order to explore computer resource sharing and packet-switched communication.
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April, 1967
Use of minicomputers for network packet switches (IMPs - early routers) instead of mainframes proposed at ARPAnet Design Session in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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April, 1968
J. C. R. Licklider and Bob Taylor publish The Computer as a Communications Device.
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August, 1968
Request for Quotations (RFQ) released for ARPAnet mandating a packet-switching design.
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December, 1968
ARPAnet contract given to Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN).
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April, 1969
RFC-1 written by Steve Crocker covering host-to-host protocol.
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September 1, 1969
First node of the ARPAnet installed at UCLA Network Measurement Center.
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October 1, 1969
Second node of the ARPAnet installed at Stanford Research Institute. The first messages passed that day were: "LOG-IN...Crash!"
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November 1, 1969
Third node of ARPAnet installed at the University of California, Santa Barbra.
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December 1, 1969
Forth node of ARPAnet installed at the University of Utah.
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1970
Alohanet at the University of Hawaii becomes the first packet radio network.
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March, 1970
BBN (node 5) connected to the ARPAnet making the ARPAnet span the U.S.
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June, 1970
Xerox PARC opened.
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1971
Fifteen nodes on the ARPAnet: UCLA, SRI, UCSB, U of Utah, BBN, MIT, Rand Corp, Systems Development Corporation, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford University, U or Illinois, Case Western Reserve, Carnegie Mellon, and NASA/Ames
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September, 1971
Terminals allowed to dial into the ARPAnet via the first terminal interface processor (TIP).
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March, 1972
Ray Tomlinson writes the first basic email programs: SNDMSG and READMAIL.
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July, 1972
Larry Roberts writes RD as the first email program supporting message listing, forwarding, filing, and responding.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) specification (RFC-354) released by Jon Postel and Abhay Bhushan.
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October, 1972
First public ARPAnet demonstration at ICCC in Washington.
29 nodes were on the ARPAnet at the time.
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1973
First international connections to the ARPAnet: University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway).
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May, 1973
Bob Metcalfe designed Ethernet.
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May, 1974
First internetworking protocol (TCP) outlined in a paper ("A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection") by Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf.
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June, 1974
ARPAnet reaches 62 hosts.
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January, 1975
Bill Gates and Paul Allen team up to write BASIC for the Altair.
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July, 1975
Defense Communications Agency (DCA) takes over management of ARPAnet.
Microsoft founded.
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1976
Atlantic Packet Satellite Network (SatNet) created.
Apple Computer founded.
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July, 1976
Vint Cerf joins ARPA as program manager of the packet radio and packet satellite network.
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March, 1977
ARPAnet reaches 111 hosts.
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1978
Apple II launched as the first retail, mass-market personal computer.
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March, 1978
TCP protocol split into TCP and IP.
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June, 1979
Bob Metcalfe helps found 3Com.
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1980
Tim Berners-Lee writes the predecessor of his World Wide Web, "Enquire Within"
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1981
CSNET (Computer Science NETwork) built by a collaboration of Computer Scientists provide networking services (especially email) to university scientists with no access to ARPAnet.
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August, 1981
IBM PC announced.
Microsoft creates DOS.
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September, 1981
ARPAnet reaches 213 nodes.
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January, 1982
Sun Microsystems founded.
3Com begins selling Etherlink connectors for IBM PCs.
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1983
The Internet is born as ARPAnet begins to use TCP/IP.
DCA splits MILNET and ARPAnet.
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September, 1983
562 nodes on ARPAnet.
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November, 1983
Domain Name System (DNS) designed by Paul Mockapetris to support the email addressing format, creating .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int.
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1984
1000 hosts on the Internet.
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1985
NSF organizes NSFNET backbone to connect five supercomputing centers and interconnect all other Internet sites.
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March 15, 1985
First registered domain: Symbolic.com.
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1986
5000 hosts on the Internet.
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1987
10,000 hosts on the internet. First Cisco router shipped.
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1988
NSFNET backbone backbone upgraded to T1 (1.544 mbps).
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November, 1988
The Internet Worm is released by Robert Morris Jr., affecting about 6,000 of the 60,000 hosts on the Internet.
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1989
100,000 hosts on the Internet. Quantum becomes America Online.
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1990
Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web at CERN in Switzerland.
ARPAnet is "deinstalled" after 20 years.
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February 4, 1990
Cisco Systems goes public.
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1991
U.S. High Performance Computing Act (sponsored by Senator Al Gore) establishes the National Research and Education Network (NREN).
James Gosling begins work on Java's predecessor, The Green Project.
CERN publishes the code for Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web on the Internet.
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June 9, 1992
1,000,000 hosts on the internet.
Commerce begins to grow on the Internet due to Congressman Rick Boucher's amendment to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950.
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1993
Marc Andreessen and others develop the Mosaic browser at the University of Illinois.
The web grows by 341,000 percent in one year.
The White House and United Nations go online.
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April, 1994
Netscape Communications founded.
Jeff Bezos writes the business plan for Amazon.com.
Java demonstrated to the public for the first time.
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December, 1994
Microsoft licenses technology from Spyglass to develop a Web browser for Windows 95.
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1995
NSFNET reverts back to a research network.
Main U.S. backbone routed through interconnected network service providers.
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August 15, 1995
Bill Gates writes his famous memo "The Internet" calling the Internet the "most important single development in the computer industry since the IBM PC was introduced in 1981".
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August 9, 1995
Netscape goes public.
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August 24, 1995
Microsoft Windows 95 launched.
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