history of the internet

Vennevar Bush publishes paper on memex machine.

Jan 1, 1945

the U.S.S.R. launches Spuntnik.

Jan 1, 1957

in response the U.S. forms the advanced research project agency.

Sep 17, 1958

J.C.R. Licklider publishes his landmark paper “man-computer communication”.

Sep 17, 1960

Leonard Kleinrock, MIT: “information flow in large communication nets”. First paper on packet switchin theory.

Sep 17, 1961

J.C.R. Licklider and W. Clark MIT: “ one line man computer communication”. Galactic network concept encompassing distributed social interactions.

Sep 17, 1962

Paul Baran gets funding from the U.S. air force to experiment with a block switching network to protect communication during an nuclear war. However he withdrew his proposal when the project was shifted to military managers.

Sep 17, 1965

Larry Roberts, MIT “towards a cooperative network of time-shared computers” first ARPANET.

Sep 17, 1966

ARPA mails out 140 requests for proposals to prospective contractors to build the first 4 IMPs.

Sep 17, 1968

ALOHAnet developed by Norman Abramson. ARPANET hosts start using network control protocol.

Sep 17, 1970

15 nodes (23 hosts) UCLA, SRI, UCSB, University of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU, CWRU, CMU, NASA.

Sep 17, 1971

first international connections to the ARPANET: university college of london and royal radar establishment.

Sep 17, 1973

Bob Metcalfe’s PHd thesis outlines idea for ethernert.

Sep 17, 1973

operational manegment of internet transferred to DCA.

Sep 17, 1975

Elizabeth II, Queen of the united kingdom sends out an E-mail.

Sep 17, 1976

UUCP developed at AT&T bell labs and distributed UNIX one year later.

Sep 17, 1976

ARPA establishes the internet configuration control board.

Sep 17, 1979

Name server developed at University of Wisconsin, no longer requires users to know the exact path to other systems.

Sep 17, 1983

“whole earth lectronic link” operated by sewart brand on his houseboat is open for calls

Sep 17, 1985

number of hosts breaks 10,000.

Sep 17, 1987

number of hosts break 100,000.

Sep 17, 1989

ARPANET ceases to exist.

Sep 17, 1990

world wide web released by CERN; Tim berners-lee developer

Sep 17, 1991

number of hosts break 1,000,000.

Sep 17, 1992

NSFNET passes trillion bytes per month.

Sep 17, 1994

netscape releases the source code for its netscape navigator browser to the public domain.

Sep 17, 1998