Internet By jonruiz123 Jan 28, 1961 First articles on packet switching. First articles on packet switching. Feb 1, 1966 Foundation of Merit Network Mar 5, 1966 Planning ARPANET Nov 27, 1969 ARPANET packet carries its first Feb 2, 1970 Mark I network in the LNF (UK) May 14, 1970 Network Information Center (NEIC) Jul 5, 1971 Merit Network packet switching's started operations Dec 8, 1971 Packet switching network Tymnet Mar 9, 1972 Creating Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Jun 27, 1973 Demonstration of the CYCLADES network Oct 17, 1974 Packet switching network Telenet Aug 7, 1976 Approval of the X.25 protocol Feb 27, 1978 Entering Minitel Aug 13, 1979 Internet Activities Board (IAB) Oct 3, 1980 Usenet via UUCP Dec 22, 1980 Presentation of the Ethernet standard Mar 6, 1981 Bitnet Sep 5, 1981 Computer Science Network (CSNET) Apr 12, 1982 Formalization of the TCP / IP protocol Aug 3, 1982 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Feb 3, 1983 Domain Name System (DNS) Feb 4, 1983 MILNET separated from ARPANET Feb 4, 1985 First .COM domain name registered Feb 4, 1986 NSFNET with leagues of 56 kbit / s Feb 4, 1986 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Feb 4, 1987 UUNET Feb 4, 1988 NSFNET upgraded to 1.5 Mbit / s (T1) Feb 4, 1988 Presentation of OSI Reference Model Feb 4, 1988 Morris worm Feb 4, 1989 ARPANET withdrawal Feb 4, 1989 PSINet created, allowing commercial traffic Feb 4, 1989 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Feb 4, 1989 Federal Internet Exchanges (fixes) Feb 4, 1990 GOSSIP (no TCP / IP) Feb 4, 1990 Advanced Network and Services(ANS) Feb 4, 1990 UUNET / Alternet allows commercial traffic Feb 4, 1990 Archie search engine Feb 4, 1991 Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) Feb 4, 1991 Gopher Feb 4, 1991 World Wide Web (WWW) Feb 4, 1991 Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) Feb 4, 1991 ANS CORE allows commercial traffic Feb 4, 1992 NSFNET upgraded to 45 Mbit / s (T3) Feb 4, 1992 Internet Society (ISOC) Feb 4, 1993 Classless Inter-Domain Routing(CIDR) Feb 4, 1993 InterNIC Feb 4, 1993 Mosaic web browser first browser Internet.1 Feb 4, 1994 Full text web search engines Feb 4, 1994 North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) Feb 4, 1995 New Internet architecture with commercial ISPs connected conNAPs Feb 4, 1995 NSFNET is removed Feb 4, 1995 GOSSIP is updated to allow TCP / IP Feb 4, 1995 very high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS) Feb 4, 1995 Introducing IPv6 Feb 4, 1998 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Feb 4, 1999 IEEE 802.11b wireless networks Feb 4, 1999 Internet2/Abilene Network Feb 4, 1999 vBNS allow greater access Feb 4, 2000 Dot-com bubble bursts Feb 4, 2001 New top-level domain names activated Feb 4, 2001 I worms Code Red, Code Red II, and Nimda Feb 4, 2003 National LambdaRail Feb 4, 2006 First meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Feb 4, 2010 First registration of internationalized country code top-level domains Feb 4, 2012 ICANN begins accepting applications for new generic top-level domain names