History of the Internet

By Cahill2255

  • First ARPANET plan

    Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
    (aka. the network that started the whole internet)
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    History of the Interent (Timeline)

    Timeline of the internet
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    History of the Internet

    A brief fact filled internet timeline

  • ARPANET design discussions.

    Held by Larry Roberts at ARPA IPTO PI meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
    First meeting of the three independent packet network teams (RAND, NPL, ARPA)

  • PS-network presented to the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)

    Network Working Group (NWG), headed by Steve Crocker, loosely organized to develop host level protocols for communication over the ARPANET.
  • Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN) awarded Packet Switch contract to build Interface Message Processors

    Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN) awarded Packet Switch contract to build Interface Message Processors

    Nodes are stood up as BBN builds each IMP (Honeywell DDP-516 mini computer with 12K of memory) AT&T provides lines bundled to 50kbps
  • Nodes are set up.

    Nodes are set up.

    Node 1: UCLA (30 August, hooked up 2 September)
    Function: Network Measurement Center
    System,OS: SDS SIGMA 7, SEX
    Node 2: Stanford Research Institute (SRI) (1 October)
    Network Information Center (NIC)
    SDS940/Genie
    Node 3: University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) (1 November)
    Culler-Fried Interactive Mathematics
    IBM 360/75, OS/MVT
    Node 4: University of Utah (December)
    Graphics
    DEC PDP-10, Tenex
  • 15 nodes added to server

    15 nodes added to server

    15 nodes (23 hosts): UCLA, SRI, UCSB, Univ of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU(C), CWRU, CMU, NASA/Ames
  • Larry Roberts writes first email management program (RD) to list, selectively read, file, forward, and respond to messages

    Larry Roberts writes first email management program (RD) to list, selectively read, file, forward, and respond to messages

  • First international connections to the ARPANET: University College of London (England) via NORSAR (Norway)

    First international connections to the ARPANET: University College of London (England) via NORSAR (Norway)

  • E-Mail sent by queen

    E-Mail sent by queen

    Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom sends out an email on 26 March from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) in Malvern

  • Network gets bigger

    THEORYNET created by Larry Landweber at Univ of Wisconsin providing electronic mail to over 100 researchers in computer science
  • Internet gets emotional

    Internet gets emotional

    On April 12, Kevin MacKenzie emails the MsgGroup a suggestion of adding some emotion back into the dry text medium of email, such as -) for indicating a sentence was tongue-in-cheek. Though flamed by many at the time, emoticons became widely used after Scott Fahlman suggested the use of :-) and :-( in a CMU BBS on 19 September 1982
  • First internet virus

    First internet virus

    ARPANET grinds to a complete halt on 27 October because of an accidentally-propagated status-message virus
  • Network Hosts reach new hights

    Network Hosts reach new hights

    Number of hosts breaks 1,000
  • New England gets cut off

    New England gets cut off

    New England gets cut off from the Net as AT&T suffers a fiber optics cable break between Newark/NJ and White Plains/NY. Yes, all seven New England ARPANET trunk lines were in the one severed cable. Outage took place between 1:11 and 12:11 EST on 12 December
  • Even more hosts

    Even more hosts

    Number of hosts breaks 10,000
  • 100k hosts

    100k hosts

    Host break 100000
  • International internet

    International internet

    Countries connecting to NSFNET: Australia (AU), Germany (DE), Israel (IL), Italy (IT), Japan (JP), Mexico (MX), Netherlands (NL), New Zealand (NZ), Puerto Rico (PR), United Kingdom (UK) Canada (CA), Denmark (DK), France (FR), Iceland (IS), Norway (NO), Sweden (SE) Argentina (AR), Austria (AT), Belgium (BE), Brazil (BR), Chile (CL), Greece (GR), India (IN), Ireland (IE), Korea (KR), Spain (ES), Switzerland (CH)

  • Even more country's join the sensation

    Croatia (HR), Hong Kong (HK), Hungary (HU), Poland (PL), Portugal (PT), Singapore (SG), South Africa (ZA), Taiwan (TW), Tunisia (TN)

  • 1,000,000 hosts

    number of host eqauls 1,000,000

  • More countries join in

    Bulgaria (BG), Costa Rica (CR), Egypt (EG), Fiji (FJ), Ghana (GH), Guam (GU), Indonesia (ID), Kazakhstan (KZ), Kenya (KE), Liechtenstein (LI), Peru (PE), Romania (RO), Russian Federation (RU), Turkey (TR), Ukraine (UA), UAE (AE), US Virgin Islands (VI)

  • Anniversary

    ARPANET/Internet celebrates 25th anniversary
  • Internet Stores?

    Internet Stores?

    Shopping malls arrive on the Internet
  • Banning Technology

    Banning Technology

    Internet phones catch the attention of US telecommunication companies who ask the US Congress to ban the technology
  • Big Buisness

    Big Buisness

    Domain name business.com sold for US$150,000
  • Saudi Arabia get connected

    Saudi Arabia get connected

    Internet access becomes available to the Saudi Arabian (.sa) public in January
  • A year of Hacks

    A year of Hacks

    Various domain name hijackings took place in late May and early June, including internet.com, bali.com, and web.net
    A massive denial of service attack is launched against major web sites, including Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay in early February
    Hacks of the Year: RSA Security (Feb), Apache (May), Western Union (Sep), Microsoft (Oct)