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First ARPANET plan
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
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History of the Interent (Timeline)
Timeline of the internet -
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History of the Internet
A brief fact filled internet timeline -
ARPANET design discussions.
Held by Larry Roberts at ARPA IPTO PI meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
First meeting of the three independent packet network teams (RAND, NPL, ARPA) -
PS-network presented to the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
Network Working Group (NWG), headed by Steve Crocker, loosely organized to develop host level protocols for communication over the ARPANET. -
Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN) awarded Packet Switch contract to build Interface Message Processors
Nodes are stood up as BBN builds each IMP (Honeywell DDP-516 mini computer with 12K of memory) AT&T provides lines bundled to 50kbps -
Nodes are set up.
Node 1: UCLA (30 August, hooked up 2 September)
Function: Network Measurement Center
System,OS: SDS SIGMA 7, SEX
Node 2: Stanford Research Institute (SRI) (1 October)
Network Information Center (NIC)
SDS940/Genie
Node 3: University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) (1 November)
Culler-Fried Interactive Mathematics
IBM 360/75, OS/MVT
Node 4: University of Utah (December)
Graphics
DEC PDP-10, Tenex -
15 nodes added to server
15 nodes (23 hosts): UCLA, SRI, UCSB, Univ of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU(C), CWRU, CMU, NASA/Ames -
Larry Roberts writes first email management program (RD) to list, selectively read, file, forward, and respond to messages
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First international connections to the ARPANET: University College of London (England) via NORSAR (Norway)
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E-Mail sent by queen
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom sends out an email on 26 March from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) in Malvern -
Network gets bigger
THEORYNET created by Larry Landweber at Univ of Wisconsin providing electronic mail to over 100 researchers in computer science -
Internet gets emotional
On April 12, Kevin MacKenzie emails the MsgGroup a suggestion of adding some emotion back into the dry text medium of email, such as -) for indicating a sentence was tongue-in-cheek. Though flamed by many at the time, emoticons became widely used after Scott Fahlman suggested the use of :-) and :-( in a CMU BBS on 19 September 1982 -
First internet virus
ARPANET grinds to a complete halt on 27 October because of an accidentally-propagated status-message virus -
Network Hosts reach new hights
Number of hosts breaks 1,000 -
New England gets cut off
New England gets cut off from the Net as AT&T suffers a fiber optics cable break between Newark/NJ and White Plains/NY. Yes, all seven New England ARPANET trunk lines were in the one severed cable. Outage took place between 1:11 and 12:11 EST on 12 December -
Even more hosts
Number of hosts breaks 10,000 -
100k hosts
Host break 100000 -
International internet
Countries connecting to NSFNET: Australia (AU), Germany (DE), Israel (IL), Italy (IT), Japan (JP), Mexico (MX), Netherlands (NL), New Zealand (NZ), Puerto Rico (PR), United Kingdom (UK) Canada (CA), Denmark (DK), France (FR), Iceland (IS), Norway (NO), Sweden (SE) Argentina (AR), Austria (AT), Belgium (BE), Brazil (BR), Chile (CL), Greece (GR), India (IN), Ireland (IE), Korea (KR), Spain (ES), Switzerland (CH) -
Even more country's join the sensation
Croatia (HR), Hong Kong (HK), Hungary (HU), Poland (PL), Portugal (PT), Singapore (SG), South Africa (ZA), Taiwan (TW), Tunisia (TN) -
1,000,000 hosts
number of host eqauls 1,000,000 -
More countries join in
Bulgaria (BG), Costa Rica (CR), Egypt (EG), Fiji (FJ), Ghana (GH), Guam (GU), Indonesia (ID), Kazakhstan (KZ), Kenya (KE), Liechtenstein (LI), Peru (PE), Romania (RO), Russian Federation (RU), Turkey (TR), Ukraine (UA), UAE (AE), US Virgin Islands (VI) -
Anniversary
ARPANET/Internet celebrates 25th anniversary -
Internet Stores?
Shopping malls arrive on the Internet -
Banning Technology
Internet phones catch the attention of US telecommunication companies who ask the US Congress to ban the technology -
Big Buisness
Domain name business.com sold for US$150,000 -
Saudi Arabia get connected
Internet access becomes available to the Saudi Arabian (.sa) public in January -
A year of Hacks
Various domain name hijackings took place in late May and early June, including internet.com, bali.com, and web.net
A massive denial of service attack is launched against major web sites, including Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay in early February
Hacks of the Year: RSA Security (Feb), Apache (May), Western Union (Sep), Microsoft (Oct)
