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History of the Internet

By itztaylorb

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    USSR launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite. In response, US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the following year, within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military (:amk:)

  • @

    @
    Ray Tomlinson (BBN) modifies email program for ARPANET where it becomes a quick hit. The @ sign was chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson's Model 33 Teletype for its "at" meaning (March)

  • DNS

    DNS
    Domain Name System (DNS) introduced

  • Worm

    Worm
    2 November - Internet worm burrows through the Net, affecting ~6,000 of the 60,000 hosts on the Internet (:ph1:)

  • 25th Anniversary

    25th Anniversary
    RPANET/Internet celebrates 25th anniversary

  • JAVA

    JAVA
    Sun launches JAVA on May 23

  • DNS table failure

    DNS table failure
    Early in the morning of 17 July, human error at Network Solutions causes the DNS table for .com and .net domains to become corrupted, making millions of systems unreachable.

  • Hobbes

    Hobbes' Internet Timeline is released as RFC 2235 & FYI 32

  • Saudi arabia

    Saudi arabia
    Internet access becomes available to the Saudi Arabian (.sa) public in January

  • NASA

    NASA
    NASA successfully tests the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet, using the Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) software to transmit images to/fron a science spacecraft ~20 million miles above Earth