THE HISTORY OF INTERNET By sanvii Nov 23, 1961 First packet-switching papers Nov 23, 1966 ARPANET planning starts Nov 23, 1969 ARPANET carries its first packets Nov 23, 1970 Mark I network at NPL (UK) Nov 23, 1970 Network Information Center (NIC) Nov 23, 1971 Merit Network's packet-switched network Nov 23, 1971 Tymnet packet-switched network Nov 23, 1972 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Nov 23, 1973 CYCLADES network Nov 23, 1974 Telenet packet-switched network Nov 23, 1976 X.25 protocol approved Nov 23, 1978 Minitel introduced Nov 23, 1979 Internet Activities Board (IAB) Nov 23, 1980 USENET news using UUCP Nov 23, 1980 Ethernet standard introduced Nov 23, 1981 BITNET established Nov 23, 1981 Computer Science Network (CSNET) Nov 23, 1982 TCP/IP protocol suite formalized Nov 23, 1982 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Nov 23, 1983 Domain Name System (DNS) Nov 23, 1983 1983 – MILNET split off from ARPANET Nov 23, 1985 1985 – First .COM domain name registered Nov 23, 1986 1986 – NSFNET with 56 kbit/s links Nov 23, 1986 1986 – Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Nov 23, 1987 1987 – UUNET founded Nov 23, 1988 1988 – NSFNET upgraded to 1.5 Mbit/s (T1) Nov 23, 1988 1988 – OSI Reference Model released Nov 23, 1988 1988 – Morris worm Nov 23, 1989 1989 – Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Nov 23, 1989 1989 – PSINet founded, allows commercial traffic Nov 23, 1989 1989 – Federal Internet Exchanges (FIXes) Nov 23, 1990 1990 – Advanced Network and Services (ANS) Nov 23, 1990 1990 – GOSIP (without TCP/IP) Nov 23, 1990 1990 – ARPANET decommissioned Nov 23, 1990 1990 – UUNET/Alternet allows commercial traffic Nov 23, 1990 1990 – Archie search engine Nov 23, 1991 1991 – Wide area information server (WAIS) Nov 23, 1991 1991 – Gopher Nov 23, 1991 1991 – Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) Nov 23, 1991 1991 – ANS CO+RE allows commercial traffic Nov 23, 1991 1991 – World Wide Web (WWW) Nov 23, 1992 1992 – NSFNET upgraded to 45 Mbit/s (T3) Nov 23, 1992 1992 – Internet Society (ISOC) established Nov 23, 1993 1993 – Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) Nov 23, 1993 1993 – InterNIC established Nov 23, 1993 1993 – Mosaic web browser released Nov 23, 1994 1994 – Full text web search engines Nov 23, 2015 1994 – North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) established
