internet By julen1904 Nov 19, 1950 Development of electronic computers Mar 1, 1960 The US Department of Defense awarded contracts Sep 21, 1961 First packet-switching papers Nov 19, 1962 the first recordered description of the social interactions Nov 19, 1966 Merit Network founded Nov 23, 1969 ARPANET carries its first packets Nov 23, 1970 Mark I network at NPL (UK) Mark I network at NPL (UK) Nov 23, 1971 Merit Network's packet-switched network Nov 23, 1972 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Nov 23, 1973 CYCLADES network demonstrated Nov 23, 1976 X25 Protocolo approved Nov 23, 1979 internet activities board Nov 23, 1980 Ethernet standard introduced Nov 23, 1981 BITNET established Nov 23, 1981 BITNET established Nov 23, 1982 TCP/IP protocol suite formalized Nov 23, 1983 Domain Name System (DNS Nov 23, 1985 First .COM domain name registered Nov 23, 1986 NSFNET with 56 kbit/s links Nov 23, 1987 UUNET founded Nov 23, 1988 upgraded to 1.5 Mbit/s (T1) Nov 23, 1989 PSINet founded, allows commercial traffic Nov 23, 1990 Advanced Network and Services (ANS) Nov 23, 1990 UUNET/Alternet allows commercial traffic Feb 26, 1991 Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) Nov 23, 1992 Internet Society (ISOC) established Nov 23, 1993 Mosaic web browser released Jan 3, 1994 North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) established Nov 23, 1995 New Internet architecture with commercial ISPs connected at NAPs Nov 23, 1998 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Nov 23, 1999 IEEE 802.11b wireless networking Nov 23, 2000 Dot-com bubble bursts Nov 23, 2001 Code Red I, Code Red II, and Nimda worms Nov 23, 2003 UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) phase I Nov 23, 2004 UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) Nov 23, 2005 UN WSIS phase II Nov 23, 2006 First meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Nov 23, 2010 First internationalized country code top-level domains registered Nov 23, 2012 ICANN begins accepting applications for new generic top-level domain names Nov 23, 2013 Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation Nov 23, 2014 NetMundial international Internet governance proposal