HISTORY OF THE INTERNET By agranados22 Nov 19, 1961 First packet-switching papers Aug 1, 1962 First documental description asociated to networking Licklider arged about the concept of the galactic connection Sep 1, 1966 Mertir Network foundation creation The Mertir network organisation was created Nov 3, 1966 ARPANET was planned Nov 1, 1969 ARPANET transports it´s first letters Nov 19, 1971 Tymnet packet-switched network Nov 19, 1972 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) was established Nov 19, 1973 CYCLADES network was demonstrated Nov 19, 1974 Telenet packet-switched network Nov 19, 1976 X.25 protccol was approved Nov 19, 1978 Minitel was introduced Nov 19, 1979 Internet Activities Boards (IAB) Nov 19, 1980 USENET news using UUCP Sep 16, 1981 BITNET was established Nov 19, 1981 Computer science network (CSNET) Nov 19, 1982 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Nov 19, 1982 TCP/IP protocol was suite formalized Nov 19, 1983 Domain Name System (DNS) Nov 19, 1983 MILNET splited off from ARPANET Nov 19, 1985 First .COM domain name was created Nov 19, 1986 NSFNET with 56 kbits links Nov 19, 1987 UUNET was founded Nov 19, 1987 UUNET was founded Nov 19, 1988 NSFNET was upgraded to 1.5 Mbit/s Dec 16, 1988 OSI Reference Model was released Nov 19, 1989 Federal Internet Exchanges (FIXes) Nov 19, 1990 GOSIP (without TCP/IP) was created Nov 22, 1990 UUNET/Alternet allowed commercial traffic Dec 19, 1990 Archie search engine Nov 1, 1991 Wide Area Connection Server (WAIS) Nov 19, 1991 World Wide Web Nov 19, 1992 Internet society(ISOC) was created Nov 19, 1993 InterNIC was established Nov 19, 1993 Mosaic Web Browser was established Nov 19, 1994 North American Network Operator´s group(NANOG) was established Nov 19, 1995 New Internet architecture with commercial ISP´s connected at NAPs Nov 19, 1995 eBay (an online auction and shop) was created Nov 24, 1995 NSFNET was decommissioned Dec 19, 1995 IPv6 was proposed Nov 19, 1998 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was created Nov 19, 1998 PayPal Internet payment system was proposed and created Nov 19, 1999 vBNS+ allowed broader access Nov 19, 2000 Dot-com bubble bursts Nov 19, 2001 New top-level domain names were activated Nov 19, 2001 Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia) was created Dec 19, 2001 Code Red I, Code Red II, and Nimda worms Nov 19, 2003 National LambdaRail was founded Nov 19, 2003 UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was uddated to phase I Nov 19, 2003 National LambdaRail was founded Nov 19, 2003 iTunes Store was created Nov 19, 2004 UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) was created Nov 19, 2004 Facebook was created Nov 19, 2005 UN WSIS was upgrade to phase II Nov 19, 2006 First meeting of the Internet Governance Forum was celebrated Nov 19, 2009 Bing search engine was created Nov 19, 2010 First internationalized country code top-level domains was registered Nov 19, 2012 ICANN started to accept applications for new generic top-level domain names Nov 19, 2013 Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation was signed Nov 19, 2014 NetMundial international Internet governance was prposed