Internet

HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

By agranados22

  • First packet-switching papers

  • First documental description asociated to networking

    Licklider arged about the concept of the galactic connection

  • Mertir Network foundation creation

    The Mertir network organisation was created

  • ARPANET was planned

  • ARPANET transports it´s first letters

  • Tymnet packet-switched network

  • Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) was established

  • CYCLADES network was demonstrated

  • Telenet packet-switched network

  • X.25 protccol was approved

  • Minitel was introduced

  • Internet Activities Boards (IAB)

  • USENET news using UUCP

  • BITNET was established

  • Computer science network (CSNET)

  • Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

  • TCP/IP protocol was suite formalized

  • Domain Name System (DNS)

  • MILNET splited off from ARPANET

  • First .COM domain name was created

  • NSFNET with 56 kbits links

  • UUNET was founded

  • UUNET was founded

  • NSFNET was upgraded to 1.5 Mbit/s

  • OSI Reference Model was released

  • Federal Internet Exchanges (FIXes)

  • GOSIP (without TCP/IP) was created

  • UUNET/Alternet allowed commercial traffic

  • Archie search engine

  • Wide Area Connection Server (WAIS)

  • World Wide Web

  • Internet society(ISOC) was created

  • InterNIC was established

  • Mosaic Web Browser was established

  • North American Network Operator´s group(NANOG) was established

  • New Internet architecture with commercial ISP´s connected at NAPs

  • eBay (an online auction and shop) was created

  • NSFNET was decommissioned

  • IPv6 was proposed

  • Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was created

  • PayPal Internet payment system was proposed and created

  • vBNS+ allowed broader access

  • Dot-com bubble bursts

  • New top-level domain names were activated

  • Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia) was created

  • Code Red I, Code Red II, and Nimda worms

  • National LambdaRail was founded

  • UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was uddated to phase I

  • National LambdaRail was founded

  • iTunes Store was created

  • UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) was created

  • Facebook was created

  • UN WSIS was upgrade to phase II

  • First meeting of the Internet Governance Forum was celebrated

  • Bing search engine was created

  • First internationalized country code top-level domains was registered

  • ICANN started to accept applications for new generic top-level domain names

  • Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation was signed

  • NetMundial international Internet governance was prposed

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