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The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, making the US president Dwight Eisenhower to make the ARPA in an attempt to regain the lead in technology.
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A professor of computer science at UCLA, whose name is Leonard Kleinrock, wrote the first paper on packet-switching
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Len Kleinrock describes the packet switching network in the Communication Nets, which is used for ARPAnet
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First Network Experiment. Two computers talked to each other using the packet-switching technology.
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ARPA project begins with the chief scientist being Larry Roberts.
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ARPANet contract was given to Bolt, Newman, and Beranek (BBN- an american high technology company) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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First ARPANet node (node - connection point) installed at UCLA Newtwork Measurement Center.
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Second node installed at Stanford Research Institute. The first ARPANet message sent was "lo", an attempt to spell log-in, but the system had crashed.
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The third node was installed at the University of California, Sant Barbara. Connected to IBM (IBM - short for International Business Machines)
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The fourth node was installed at the University of Utah. Connected to DEC. (DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation)
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The fifth node was installed at BBN
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"@" is the sign chosen for "at"
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The first Apple computer was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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Tim Berners-Lee writes the program called "Enqire Within," the predecessor to the Wordld Wide Web
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McAfee founded; anti-virus software was available for free.
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ARPANet ends, Tim Berners-Lee then created the World Wide Web.
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Estimated 92 million Web sites online.
