The history of the internet

By mchadwick52

  • Packet Switching

    packet switching started in the 1960s and packet switched networks were developed in the late 1960s

  • The Arpanet

    The ARPANET led to the development of internetworking, where multiple separate networks could be joined together into a network of networks.

  • The First Arpanet

    The first two nodes of what would become the ARPANET were interconnected between Leonard Kleinrock's Network Measurement Center at the UCLA's School of Engineering and Applied Science and Douglas Engelbart's NLS system at SRI International.

  • The Young Arpanet

    There were already fifteen sites connected to the ARPANET by the end of 1971.

  • Internet becomes public

    In 1982, the Internet was standardized and the concept of a world-wide network of fully interconnected TCP/IP networks called the Internet was introduced.

  • Internet commercialized through out the U.S.

    The Internet was fully commercialized in the U.S. by 1995 when NSFNET was decommissioned,