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Sputnik
The USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite -
Baran
RAND Paul Baran, of the RAND Corporation (a government agency), was commissioned by the U.S. Air Force to do a study on how it could maintain its command and control over its missiles and bombers, after a nuclear attack. This was to be a military research network that could survive a nuclear strike, decentralized so that if any locations (cities) in the U.S. were attacked, the military could still have control of nuclear arms for a counter-attack. Baran's finished document described several way -
Honeywell minicomputer
ARPA awarded the ARPANET contract to BBN. BBN had selected a Honeywell minicomputer as the base on which they would build the switch. The physical network was constructed in 1969, linking four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles, SRI (in Stanford), University of California at Santa Barbara, and University of Utah. The network was wired together via 50 Kbps circuits. -
email created
The first e-mail program was created by Ray Tomlinson of BBN. -
Protocol invented
Development began on the protocol later to be called TCP/IP, it was developed by a group headed by Vinton Cerf from Stanford and Bob Kahn from DARPA. This new protocol was to allow diverse computer networks to interconnect and communicate with each other. -
"Internet"
First Use of term Internet by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in paper on Transmission Control Protocol. -
Ethernet created
Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe develops Ethernet, which allowed coaxial cable to move data extremely fast. This was a crucial component to the development of LANs. -
Packed satellite
The packet satellite project went into practical use. SATNET, Atlantic packet Satellite network, was born. This network linked the United States with Europe. Surprisingly, it used INTELSAT satellites that were owned by a consortium of countries and not exclusively the United States government. -
Steve Bellovin
The USENET was created by a university graduate student, Steve Bellovin -
CSNET 56 kbps network
National Science Foundation created backbone called CSNET 56 Kbps network for institutions without access to ARPANET. Vinton Cerf proposed a plan for an inter-network connection between CSNET and the ARPANET. -
IAB created
Internet Activities Board (IAB) was created in 1983. -
MILNET and APRANET
The ARPANET was divided into two networks: MILNET and ARPANET. MILNET was to serve the needs of the military and ARPANET to support the advanced research component, Department of Defense continued to support both networks. -
T1
National Science Foundation started it's own T1 lines which would be finished in 1988 -
created forum
IETF created forum for technology co-ordination -
Combining
Two major company's formed one because of the national science foundation -
network updated
t1 is completed so network is updated -
upgraded network
upgraded network higher speed -
network disconnected
one network is disconnected -
www created
world wide web created -
windows
windows 2009
