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USSR launches Sputnik
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President Eisenhower started ARPA
President Eisenhower started Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) to coordinate all research as a response to USSR's Sputnik launch -
Licklider director of ARPA
Dr. JCR Licklider was appointed as first director of ARPA's Information processing division -
Dr. Roberts ARPANET Program Manager
Dr. Lawrence Roberts was appointed program manager of ARPANET project -
ARPANET goes online
ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major U.S. universities. Designed for research, education, and government organizations, It provides a communications network linking the country in the event that a military attack destroys conventional communications systems. It is also meant to speed up sharing of knowledge between government agencies, research institutes and universities. -
Ray Tomlinson invents email
Ray Tomlinson, a computer engineer working for Bolt Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts, developed a system for sending messages between computers that used the @ symbol to identify addresses. He now can't remember the first message he sent, or the exact date he sent it. Tomlinson's system gained popularity by linking up users on Arpanet, the US department of defence system that became the basis for the internet. -
Dr. Roberts writes first email management program
Lawrence Roberts - also at work on Arpanet - writes the first email management program that develops the ability to list, select, forward, and respond to messages. -
TCP/IP is designed
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is designed and in 1983 it becomes the standard for communicating between computers over the Internet. One of these protocols, FTP (File Transfer Protocol), allows users to log onto a remote computer, list the files on that computer, and download files from that computer.
