Date
|
Event
|
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1960s
|
Packet switching invented (Paul Baran, Rand Corp, wrote on "Distributed
Communications Networks") |
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1967
|
Plan for packet switching presented at ACM Symposium on Operating Principles. |
|
1969
|
Commissioned by the Department
of Defense for research into internetworking, first four computers
connected |
|
1970
|
Nodes used Network Control Protocol (NCP) through Information Message
Processors, developed by Bolt Beranek & Newman, Inc. (BBN) |
|
1972
|
InterNetworking Working Group (INWG) created to establish standard
protocols (Vinton Cerf is chairman). |
|
1973
|
First international connections made to England and Norway. |
|
1976
|
Unix to Unix Copy Protocol (UUCP) developed at AT&T
Bell Labs. |
|
1979
|
Usenet established using UUCP between Duke
University and University of North Carolina. |
|
1981
|
Because It's Time Network (BITNET) started at City
University of New York; Computer Science Network (CSNET) established. |
|
1982
|
INWG establishes TCP/IP as the ARPAnet protocol suite; Department
of Defense adopts the standard. |
|
1983
|
Name server developed at University
of Wisconsin; users are no longer required to know the exact path to
other systems; splits into ARPAnet and MILnet. |
|
1984
|
Domain Named Server (DNS) introduced; hosts exceed 1,000. |
|
1986
|
NSFnet created with 56 kbps backbone. |
|
1987
|
NSF contracts with Merit Network,
Inc. (which contracts with IBM and
MCI) to manage backbone. |
|
1989
|
NSFnet backbone upgraded to T1 (1.544Mbps); hosts exceed 100,000. |
|
1990
|
ARPAnet ceases to exist; Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) formed; Archie released. |
|
1991
|
Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) formed; WAIS released by Thinking
Machines Corporation; Gopher released by University
of Minnesota. |
|
1992
|
Internet Society chartered; World Wide Web released by CERN;
NSFnet backbone upgraded to T3 (44.736 Mbps); more than 1,000,000 hosts. |
|
1993
|
InterNIC created by NSF to provide a variety of Internet services;
White House goes online; Internet
receives media attention. |
|
1994
|
NSF redirects strategy, turning over network provision to private sector
and abolishing commercial restrictions. |
|
1995
|
Commercial online services begin providing Internet access; other competitors
join the fray; Internet gains widespread use in government and commercial
sectors. |
|
1996
|
Sun Microsystems' Java programming language emerges as the hottest
way to use the World Wide Web. Serious Web surfers flock to Java because
it eliminates the need for Web browser add-ons, enabling users to open
any type of file without outside assistance. |
