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Leonard Klienrock at MIT publishes the first paper on packet switching theory.
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Leonard Klienrock writes the first description of the social interaction that could be enabled through networking he called “galactic network.”
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Simultaneous work on secure packet switching networks takes place at MIT, RAND Corporation, and at the National Physical Laboratory in Great Britain.
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Thomas Merrill and Larry Roberts connect the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-30 in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first wide area computer network.
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Larry Roberts and the ARPA team refine overall structure and specifications for ARPANET. That very same year Great Britain setup first test network.
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The first node is installed at UCLA.
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ARPANET has installed 37 nodes, while continuing growth. By the second year of operation users have warped the computer network into a dedicated high speed federally subsidized electronic post office and the gossip begins.
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Network Control Protocol is introduced to allow computers on the same network to communicate.
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Vinton Cerf working for Stanford and Bob Kahn from DARPA begin work on developing TCP/IP to allow computers to communicated on different networks.
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Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs announce the Apple II computer.
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USENET, the first news group network is developed by Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis, and Steve Bellovin.
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TCP/IP becomes the standard protocol.
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ARPANET’s military segment breaks off into MILNET and a domain system is introduced to allow domain names to automatically assign an IP number.
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NSF working group, chaired by Kent Curtis issued a plan for “A National Environment for Academic Research.”
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Apple announces the Macintosh.
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NSFNET backbone is upgraded to the T1 and the internet starts to go international.
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ARPANET shuts down and in its twenty year “the net” has grown from 4 to 300,00 host connecting across the globe.
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Tim Berners-Lee creates and implements a hypertext system while working at CERN.
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Wireless technology called 802.11b or Wi-Fi is standardized.
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Spread of P2P file sharing across the internet begins.
