USSR Launches Sputnik, first artifical earth satellite
J.C.R. Licklider of MIT, first proposed a globa network of Computers
ARPA sponsors study on "Cooperative Network of Time-Sharing Computers" *TX-2 at MIT Lincoln Lab and AN/FSQ-32 at System Development Corporation (Santa Monica, CA) are directly linked via a dedicated 1200bps phone line
Lawrence G. Roberts, MIT designs first ARPANET plan--"Towards a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers"
Nodes are stood up as BBN buids each IMP [Honeywell DDP-516 mini computer with 12K of memory]; AT&T provides lines bumdled to 50kbps
The Internet (then known as ARPANET) was brought online
First Publication of the Original ARPANET Host-Host protocol, ALOHAnet-the first packet radio network developed by Norman Abramson, Univ of Hawaii, becomes operational
15 Nodes(23 hosts) UCLA, SRI, UCSB, Univ of Utah, BBN
Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents email program to send messages across a distributed network
Larry Roberts writes first email management program (RD) to list, selectively read, file, forward, and respond to messages
First Computer to Computer chat takes place at UCLA, and is repeated during ICCC, as psychotic PARRY (at Stanford) discusses its problems with the Doctor (at BBN)
First International Connections to the ARPANET: University College of London (England) via NORSAR (Norway)
Bob Netcalfe's Harvard PhD Thesis outlines idea for Ethernet. The concept tested Xerox PARC's Alto computers, and the first Ethernet network called the Alto Aloha System
Cerf and Kahn present basic Internet ideas at INWG at University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Satillite Links cross two oceans as (to Hawaii and the UK) as the first TCP tests run over them by Stanford, BBN, the UCL
UUCP developed at AT&T Bell Labs and distributed with UNIX one year later. Mutilprocessing Pluribus IMPs are deployed.
THEORYNET created by Larry Landweber at Univ of Wisconsin providding electronic mail for over 100 researchers in computer science
First Demonstration of ARPANET/SF Bay Packet Radio Net/Atlantic SATNET operation of Internet protocols with BBN-supplied gateways
Meeting Between Univ of Wisconsin, DARPA, National Science Foundation (NSF), and computer scientist from many universities to establish a Computer Science Department research computer network
BITNET started as a cooperative network at the City University of New York, with the first connection to Yale
Name server developed at Univ of Wisconsin, no longer requiring users to know the exact paths to other systems.
Domain Name System (DNS) introduced
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) comes into existence under the IAB, first IETF meeting held in january at Linkabit in San Diego
NSFNET created (backbone speed of 56Kbps)
First Relays between a commercial electronic mail carrier and the Internet: MCI through the Corporation for the National Research Initiative (CNRI)
ARPANET ceases to exist
WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW) released by CERN, Tim Berners-Lee developer, First web server is nxoc01.cern.ch. launched
DAY THAT CHANGED THE PLANET FOREVER!! JUAN MIGUEL HERNANDEZ IS BORN ON A SMALL FARM IN SOUTHCENTRAL YUCATAN PANINSULA