Timeline By Danilakua Jul 7, 1961 Leonard Kleinrock at MIT published first paper on packet switching theory Aug 8, 1962 First recorded description of social interactions Oct 7, 1962 First head of the computer research program at DARPA Apr 19, 1964 First book on the subject Jul 24, 1966 Merit Network was founded Nov 19, 1966 Roberts went to DARPA to develop computer network concept and quickly put togheter his plan for ARPANET Jun 19, 1967 Publish ARPANET Jun 2, 1970 Network information center Nov 21, 1970 Mark I network at NPL Aug 16, 1971 Tymnet packet-switched network Nov 21, 1971 Merit Network's packet-switched network operational Apr 12, 1972 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) established Jan 24, 1973 CYCLADES network demonstrated Apr 30, 1974 Telenet packet-switched network Apr 27, 1976 X.25 protocol approved Mar 22, 1978 Minitel introduced Nov 21, 1978 Minitel introduced Nov 21, 1979 Internet Activities Board (IAB) Dec 16, 1979 Internet Activities Board (IAB) Jun 8, 1980 Ethernet standard introduced Jul 7, 1980 USENET news using UUCP Apr 24, 1981 BITNET established Nov 23, 1981 Computer Science Network (CSNET) Apr 23, 1982 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Nov 23, 1982 TCP/IP protocol suite formalized Apr 26, 1983 MILNET split off from ARPANET Nov 23, 1983 Domain Name System (DNS) Nov 23, 1985 First .COM domain name registered Nov 23, 1986 NSFNET with 56 kbit/s links Nov 23, 1986 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Nov 23, 1987 UUNET founded Nov 23, 1988 NSFNET upgraded to 1.5 Mbit/s (T1) Nov 23, 1988 OSI Reference Model released Nov 23, 1988 Morris worm Nov 23, 1989 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Nov 23, 1989 PSINet founded, allows commercial traffic Nov 23, 1989 Federal Internet Exchanges (FIXes) Nov 23, 1990 GOSIP (without TCP/IP) Nov 23, 1990 ARPANET decommissioned Nov 23, 1990 Advanced Network and Services (ANS) Nov 23, 1990 UUNET/Alternet allows commercial traffic Nov 23, 1990 Archie search engine Nov 23, 1991 Wide area information server (WAIS) Nov 23, 1991 Gopher Nov 23, 1991 World Wide Web (WWW) Nov 23, 1992 NSFNET upgraded to 45 Mbit/s (T3) Nov 23, 1992 Internet Society (ISOC) established Nov 23, 1993 Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) Nov 23, 1993 Mosaic web browser released Nov 23, 1994 Full text web search engines Nov 23, 1994 North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) established
