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The Invention of the Modem & Creation of ARPA
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Development of message blocks and packet-switching by Paul Baran; Donald Davies (scientists)
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Lawrence G. Roberts (scientist) developed the concepts of computer networking and ARPANET
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RAND; MIT & UCLA ARE Building Test Networks
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Invention of Unix (predecessor to Linux and FreeBSD)
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Invention of “E-Mail” by Ray Tomlinson (programmer)
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Public demonstration of ARPANET at the International Computer Communications Conference
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Vint Cerf; Robert Khan (inventors) invent the term "Internet"
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The first PC modem is created by Dennis Hayes; Dale Heatherington (inventors) and TCP/IP starts linking additional networks to ARPANET
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MultiUser Dungeon (MUD) is created (predecessor to World of Warcraft/Second Life) by Roy Trubshaw (student developer).
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The invention of Apple Inc. by Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak
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ARPANET computers switch over to TCP/IP and Invention of “Server” by Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle, Songnian Zhou.
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Invention of Domain Name Space (DNS) by Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle, Songnian Zhou
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Internet Chat Relay (IRC) is created
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ARPANET formally expires
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Creation of Linux by Linus Torvalds
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Introduction of bill to fund “Information Superhighway” by Al Gore and The World Wide Web opens to the public -- made possible by Tim Berners-Lee
