Timeline: Beginning of the Internet

1957

Established ARPA

1960

Packet Switching

Packet Switching-- break messages down to separate components, sends components, reassembles message.
People started using them to send messages to each other.

1962

Established Information Process Techniques

Established Information Process Techniques office within ARPA
~goal: bring together researchers at universities and research institutes

1968

First connection between 4 universities

$563,000 was used to build the first connection via 4 interface messages between computers.
Schools Include: UCSB, Stanford, UCLA, UofU

1969

ARPANET was created

Charley Kline and Leonard Kleinrock tested new device that would link the Sigma 7 to another computer at Stanford. Typed LOG IN on the computer while on the phone with Stanford to confirm the message went through. Thus creating the ARPANET.

1969

UCLA and Stanford permanently connected

IMPs at UCLA and Stanford were permanently connected. By early December they had both been linked to the USCB and the UofU.

1970

ARPANET extended to the east coast

ARPANET was extended to the east coast and continued to grow and connect by more IMPs.

1971

Network E-mail system created

Network E-mail system was developed. First messages sent by Ray Tomlinson.

1971

First Virus was created

1975

ARPANET declared fully operational

ARPANET was declared FULLY OPERATIONAL rather then an experimental project. Including 57 IMPs across the Atlantic in London.

1980

ARPANET becomes known at the Internet

ARPANET became collectively known as the Internet.
Funding increases: private research institution, universities, fed. gov.

1980

Internet in the 1980's

Internet in the 1980's was only used by privileged minority with access to an open discussion environment that could be used without charge.
Personal computers start to find their way into the home

1981

213 computers attached to the network

213 computers attached to the network with another being added, on average, every twenty days.

1983

packet switching retired

Packet Switching protocol used by the IMPs, known as NCP was retired in favor of a more robust standard called TCP/IP. Developed by Robert E. Kahn and Vinton Cerf in the early 1970's

1984