internet

By julen1904

  • Development of electronic computers

  • The US Department of Defense awarded contracts

  • First packet-switching papers

  • the first recordered description of the social interactions

  • Merit Network founded

  • ARPANET carries its first packets

  • Mark I network at NPL (UK)

    Mark I network at NPL (UK)

  • Merit Network's packet-switched network

  • Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)

  • CYCLADES network demonstrated

  • X25 Protocolo approved

  • internet activities board

  • Ethernet standard introduced

  • BITNET established

  • BITNET established

  • TCP/IP protocol suite formalized

  • Domain Name System (DNS

  • First .COM domain name registered

  • NSFNET with 56 kbit/s links

  • UUNET founded

  • upgraded to 1.5 Mbit/s (T1)

  • PSINet founded, allows commercial traffic

  • Advanced Network and Services (ANS)

  • UUNET/Alternet allows commercial traffic

  • Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX)

  • Internet Society (ISOC) established

  • Mosaic web browser released

  • North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) established

  • New Internet architecture with commercial ISPs connected at NAPs

  • Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

  • IEEE 802.11b wireless networking

  • Dot-com bubble bursts

  • Code Red I, Code Red II, and Nimda worms

  • UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) phase I

  • UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)

  • UN WSIS phase II

  • First meeting of the Internet Governance Forum

  • First internationalized country code top-level domains registered

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

  • Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation

  • NetMundial international Internet governance proposal

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