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When we talk about the Internet, we talk about the World Wide Web from the past four or five years. But, its history goes back a lot further; all the way back to the 1950s and 60s.
So, just in case you missed the development of the Internet, here is a brief timeline highlighting some of the major occurrences over the past 49 years that have shaped the Internet of today
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1958 . President Eisenhower requests funds to create ARPA. Approved as a line item in Air Force appropriations bill.
1961 . Len Kleinrock, Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, writes first paper on packet switching, "Information Flow in Large Communications Nets." Paper published in RLE Quarterly Progress Report.
1962 •J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark write first paper on Internet Concept, "On-Line Man Computer Communications."
• Len Kleinrock writes Communication Nets, which describes design for packet switching network; used for ARPAnet
1964 . Paul Baran writes, "On Distributed Communications Networks," first paper on using message blocks to send info across a decentralized networktopology(Nodes and Links)
Oct. 1965 . First Network Experiment: Directed by Larry Roberts at MIT Lincoln Lab, two computers talked to each other using packet-switching technology.
Dec. 1966 . ARPA project begins. Larry Roberts is chief scientist.
Dec. 1968 . ARPANet contract given to Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN) in Cambridge, Mass.
Sept. 1, 1969 . First ARPANet node installed at UCLA Network Measurement Center. Kleinrock hooked up the Interface Message Processor to a Sigma 7 Computer.
Oct. 1, 1969 . Second node installed at Stanford Research Institute; connected to a SDS 940 computer. The first ARPANet message sent: "lo." Trying to spell log-in, but the system crashed!
Nov. 1, 1969 . Third node installed at University of California, Santa Barbara. Connected to an IBM 360/75.
Dec. 1, 1969 . Fourth node installed at University of Utah. Connected to a DEC PDP-10.
March 1970 . Fifth node installed at BBN, across the country in Cambridge, Mass.
July 1970 . Alohanet, first packet radio network, operational at University of Hawaii.
March 1972 . First basic e-mail programs written by Ray Tomlinson at BBN for ARPANET: SNDMSG and READMAIL. "@" sign chosen for its "at" meaning.
March 1973 . First ARPANET international connections to University College of London (England) and NORSAR (Norway).
1974 . Intelreleases the 8080 processor.
• Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection," which details the design of TCP.
1976 . Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
• Queen Elizabeth II sends out an e-mail.
. Vint Cerf joins ARPA as program manager.
1978 . TCP split into TCP and IP.
1979 . Bob Metcalfe and others found 3Com (Computer Communication Compatibility).
1980 . Tim Berners-Lee writes program called "Enquire Within," predecessor to the World Wide Web.
1981 . IBM announces its first Personal Computer. Microsoft creates DOS.
1983 . Cisco Systems founded.
Nov. 1983 . Domain Name System (DNS) designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge. .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int created.
1984 • William Gibson writes "Neuromancer." Coins the term "cyberspace".
• Apple Computer introduces the Macintosh on January 24th.
March 15, 1985 . Symbolic.com becomes the first registered domain.
1986 . 5000 hosts on ARPAnet/Internet.
1987 • 10,000 hosts on the Internet.
• First Cisco routershipped.
• 25 million PCs sold in US.
1989 • 100,000 hosts on Internet.
• McAfee Associates founded; anti-virus software available for free. Quantum becomes America Online.
1990 . ARPAnet ends. Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web.
1992 "Surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly.