History of the Internet

By lauren.lebel

  • First packet-switching papers

  • ARPANET planning starts

  • Ethernet standard introduced

  • Computer Science Network (CSNET)

  • TCP/IP Protocol suite formalized

  • ARPANET decommissioned

  • NSFNET decommissioned

  • NSFNET decommissioned

  • First meeting of the Internet Governance Forum

  • ICANN begins accepting applications for new generic top-level domain names

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