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Internet Timeline

By nrkmd2
  • The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I

    The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I

    The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I

  • United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency creates ARPA

    The United States Defense forms the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) in the Department of Defense.

  • Leonard Kleinrock publishes first paper on packet switching theory

    Leonard Kleinrock, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) publishes first paper on the packet-switching theory.

  • 1966 - First plan for ARPANET

    "Lawrence G. Roberts, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) draws up first plan for ARPANET, “Towards a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers”
  • First ARPANET connection

    First ARPANET connection

    (University of California Los Angeles, Stanford Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah was hooked up to form the original ARPANET.

  • ARPANET expands

    23 hosts of ARPANET: UCSB, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU(C), CWRU, CMU, NASA/Ames plus original members of ARPANET.

  • ARPANET connects forty machines

    "First International Conference on Computer Communications in Washington D.C. demonstration of the ARPANET between forty machines.

  • ARPANET's first international connection

    First international connection to the ARPANET from University College of London (England)

  • TCP/IP splits

    TCP/IP splits into TCP and IP

  • Formation of Computer Science Department

    Meeting in the University of Wisconsin by ARPA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and computer scientists from all around the country to form a Computer Science Department, a research computer network.

  • BITNET and CSNET (networks) are formed

    BITNET and CSNET (networks) are formed

  • Switch to TCP/IP and ARPANET splits

    Switch to TCP/IP from NCP and ARPANET splits into ARPANET and MILNET and becomes a part of the Defense Data Network.

  • Introduction of DNS

    DNS or Domain Name System introduced and number of computer hosts breaks a thousand

  • Creation of NSFNET backbone network

    NSFNET backbone network created and NSF founds five supercomputing centers for high computing power and number of hosts breaks 10,000.

  • New countries join NSFNET

    Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden connect to NSFNET.

  • 100,000 hosts

    Number of hosts breaks 100,000 and the new countries joining NSFNET was Australia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom.

  • End of ARPANET and phenomenal growth of connections

    ARPANET ceases to exist and now 300,000 computer hosts.

  • WWW established

    Friendly User Interface to WWW (World Wide Web) established and released with a menu driven system to access Resources (the one we use today).
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    Internet and WWW

    The Internet and World Wide Web will keep growing.