| Year |
Event |
|
1961 |
Leonard Kleinrock
publishes his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large
Communication Nets" is published May 31, 1961. |
|
1962 |
Leonard Kleinrock
releases his paper talking about
packetization. |
|
1962 |
Paul Baran
suggests transmission of data using fixed size message blocks. |
|
1962 |
J.C.R. Licklider
becomes the first Director of IPTO and gives his vision of a
galactic network. |
|
1964 |
Baran publishes reports "On Distributed Communications." |
|
1964 |
Leonard Kleinrock
publishes his first book on packet nets entitled Communication
Nets: Stochastic Message Flow and Design. |
|
1965 |
Lawrence G.
Roberts with MIT performs the first long distant
dial-up
connection between a TX-2 computer in Massachusetts and Tom
Marill with a Q-32 at SDC in
California. |
|
1965 |
Donald Davies
coins the word "Packet." |
|
1966 |
Lawrence G.
Roberts and
Tom Marill publish a paper about their earlier success at
connecting over dial-up. |
|
1966 |
Robert Taylor
joins ARPA and brings Larry Roberts there to develop
ARPANET. |
|
1967 |
Donald Davies
creates 1-node NPL packet net. |
|
1967 |
Wes Clark
suggests use of a minicomputer for network packet switch. |
|
1968 |
Doug Englebart publicly
demonstrates Hypertext on December 9, 1968. |
|
1968 |
The first Network
Working Group (NWG) meeting is held. |
|
1968 |
Larry Roberts
publishes ARPANET program plan on June 3, 1968. |
|
1968 |
First
RFP for a network
goes out. |
|
1968 |
UCLA is selected
to be the first node on the Internet as we know it today and
serve as the Network Msmnt Center. |
|
1969 |
Steve Crocker
releases RFC #1 on April 7,
1979 introducing the Host-to-Host and talking about the IMP
software. |
|
1969 |
UCLA puts out a
press release introducing the public to the
Internet on July 3,
1969. |
|
1969 |
On August 29,
1969 the first network
switch and the first piece
of network equipment (called "IMP", which is short for Interface
Message Processor) is sent to UCLA. |
|
1969 |
On September 2,
1969 the first data moves from UCLA
host to the IMP switch. |
|
1969 |
CompuServe,
the first commercial online service, is established. |
|
1970 |
Steve Crocker and
UCLA team releases NCP. |
|
1972 |
Ray Tomlinson
introduces network e-mail,
the first messaging system to send messages across a network to
other users. |
|
1972 |
First public demo
of ARPANET. |
|
1972 |
Norm Abramson'
Alohanet connected to ARPANET: packet radio nets. |
|
1973 |
Vinton Cerf and
Robert Kahn design TCP during 1973 and later publish it with the
help of Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine in December of 1974 in RFC
675. |
|
1973 |
ARPA deploys
SATNET the first international connection. |
|
1973 |
Robert
Metcalfe creates the Ethernet at the Xerox
Palo Alto Research
Center (PARC). |
|
1973 |
The first
VoIP call is made. |
|
1978 |
TCP splits into
TCP/IP driven by Danny Cohen, David Reed, and John Shoch to
support real-time traffic. This allows the creation of
UDP. |
|
1978 |
John Shoch and
Jon Hupp at Xerox PARC
develop the first worm. |
|
1981 |
BITNET is founded. |
|
1983 |
ARPANET
standardizes TCP/IP. |
|
1984 |
Paul Mockapetris
and Jon Postel introduce DNS. |
|
1986 |
Eric Thomas develops the first
Listserv. |
|
1986 |
NSFNET is created. |
|
1986 |
BITNET II is created. |
|
1988 |
First T-1
backbone is added to ARPANET. |
|
1988 |
Bitnet and
CSNET merge to create
CREN. |
|
1990 |
ARPANET replaced
by NSFNET. |
|
1990 |
The first search engine
Archie, written by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and Mike Parker at McGill University in Montreal
Canada is released on September 10,
1990 |
|
1991 |
Tim Berners-Lee introduces
WWW to the public on August 6,
1991. |
|
1991 |
NSF opens the
Internet to commercial use. |
|
1992 |
Internet Society
formed. |
|
1992 |
NSFNET upgraded
to T-3 backbone. |
|
1993 |
The
NCSA releases the
Mosaic browser. |
|
1995 |
The
dot-com boom
starts. |
|
1995 |
The first VoIP
software (Vocaltec) is released allowing end users to make voice
calls over the Internet. |
|
1996 |
Telecom Act
deregulates data networks. |
|
1996 |
More
e-mail is sent than
postal mail in USA. |
| 1996 |
CREN ended its support and
since then the network has cease to exist. |
|
1997 |
Internet2
consortium is established. |
|
1997 |
IEEE releases
802.11 (WiFi) standard. |
|
1998 |
Internet
weblogs begin to
appear. |
|
1999 |
Napster starts sharing
files in September of 1999. |
|
2000 |
The
dot-com bubble
starts to burst. |
|
2003 |
January 7, 2003 CREN's members
decided to dissolve the organization. |
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