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Internet History

By Cody Cameroń

  • ‘Lick’ becomes the first head of the computer research program at ARPA

    Lick calls the APRA the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO). In 1962 it was the origin of graphical programs for computer-aided design.

  • Syncom, the first synchronous communication satellite, is launched.

    NASA’s satellite is assembled in the Hughes Aircraft Company’s facility in Culver City, California. TX-2 project is talked about by Licklinder and Larry Roberts.

  • Baran is one of the first to publish, On Data Communications Networks.

    Simultaneous work on secure packet switching networks is taking place at MIT, the RAND Corporation, and the National Physical Laboratory in Great Britain.

  • DEC unveils the PDP-8, the first commercially successful minicomputer.

    small enough to sit on a desktop, it sells for $18,000 .

  • Larry Roberts and Thomas Marill create the first wide-area network connection.

    They connect the TX-2 at MIT to the Q-32 in Santa Monica via a dedicated telephone line with acoustic couplers.

  • Taylor meets with Charles Herzfeld, the head of ARPA, and recieves a million dollars to spend on networking.

    The idea is to link all the IPTO contractors.

  • The acoustically coupled modem, invented in the early sixties, is vastly improved by John van Geen

    He introduces a receiver that can reliably detect bits of data amid the hiss heard over long-distance telephone connections.

  • Frank Heart leads a team to bid on the project.

    At Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), Frank Heart leads a team to bid on the project. Bob Kahn plays a major role in shaping the overall BBN designs. BBN wins the project in December.

  • the development of a ‘protocol,’ the collection of programs that comes to be known as NCP (Network Control Protocol).

    Frank Heart puts a team together to write the software that will run the IMPs and to specify changes in the Honeywell DDP- 516 they have chosen. The team includes Ben Barker, Bernie Cosell, Will Crowther, Bob Kahn, Severo Ornstein, and Dave Walden.