Internet Time Line

  • Paper on memex machine

    Paper on memex machine
    Vennevar Bush publishes paper on memex machine
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    U.S.S.R.(Union of Soviet Socilist Republic) launches Stutnik, the first artifical earth satellite
  • J.C.R. Licklider

    J.C.R. Licklider
    J.C.R. Lidlicker publishes his landmark paper, "Man-Computer Symbiosis".
  • Lidlicker

    Lidlicker
    Licklider funds Englebarts new "Augmentation Research Center"at Stanford
  • Paul Bryan

    Paul Bryan gets funding from US Air Force to expirament with black block switching network, to protect communications during a nuclear war. He later withdrew his proposal.
  • ARPA

    ARPA (Advanced Research Project Agency) mails out 140 requests for Proposals to prospective contractors to build the first four IMPs (Interface Message Processor)
  • First Node

    First Node
    The First node to node messages sent between the University of Los Angeles and Standford Research Institute
  • 1973

    1973
    Bob Metcalfe, a Harvard PhD thesis outlines the idea for Ethernet. -Bob Kahn and Vinton Cerf present basic internet ideas to the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom
  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    First international connection to ARPANET: University College of London (England) ad Royal Radar Establishment (Norway)
  • Queen Elizabeth

    Queen Elizabeth
    Queen Elizabeth II sends out her first e-mail
  • Larry Landweber

    Larry Landweber
    Theorynet created by Larry Landweber at University of Wisconsin providing electronic mail to over 100 researchers in computer science (using a locally devolped email system and Telenet for access to sever)
  • Communications

    Packet Radio Network (PRNET) experiment starts with funding. Most communications take place between ARPANET connection via SRI (Signal Related Information)
  • IP

    IP
    Internet Protocol Devolped (IP)
  • Name Server

    Name Server
    Name server devolped at University of Wisconsin, no longer requiring users to know the exact path to other systems
  • DNS

    Domain Name System (DNS) devolped
  • Hosts

    Number of hosts breaks 1,000
  • Hosts

    Number of hosts breaks 10,000
  • Worm Responce

    Worm Responce
    CERT (Computer Emerengcy Responce Team) formed by man in response to the needs exhibited during the Morris worm incident. The worm is the only advisory issued this year.
  • Worm

    Worm
    Internet work burrows through the Net, affecting -6,000 of 60,000 hosts on the internet
  • Countries

    Countries
    Countries with internet; Australia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom
  • Hosts

    Number of Hosts breaks 100,000
  • EFF

    EFF
    Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is founded by Mitch Kapor and Stewart Brand
  • World-On line

    World-On line
    The world comes online (World.std.com), becoming the first commercial provider of internet dial up access
  • WWW

    WWW
    A scientist names Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web (WWW) at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) in Switzerland.
  • NSFNET

    NSFNET
    NSFNET (National Science Foundation Network) traffic passes 1 trillion bytes/month and 10 billion packets/month.
  • 1996

    1996
    New Internet phones catch the attention of the United States telecommunication companies. The companies ask the US Congress to ban that technology.
  • Windows 98

    Windows 98
    Microsoft releases its new Windows 98, a very advanced computer,
  • iPhone

    iPhone
    On July 29th, 2007 Apple, Inc. introduced the Apple iPhone to the United States. The iPhone re-introduced the definition of mobile internet, making it avaible to everyone with the phone,
  • Tablets

    The first tablets were produced with internet in 2010.