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Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock was a scholar at UCLA wrote his doctoral dissertation and outlined the idea of data networking and packet switching. Packet switching involves seperating data from a sending computer or device into small units known as packets sending each packet independently over cables and then reassembling the packets on the receiving computer or device. -
ARPA
In 1966 ARPA as part of the DoD funded a new network of computers called ARPANET based on a plan developed by Lawrence G. Roberts at ARPA. Because of Klainrock's research team chose the computer at UCLA to be the first computer on ARPANET. -
Chat
In 1971 the first live computer-to-computer chat took place between Standford University in California and BBN Massachusetts. -
TCP/IP
Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf developed two new protocols for ARPANET TCP and IP which solved these and other problems. Transmission control protocol which provided the flow control over the network error checking for lost packets. Internet protocol it sends the packets. -
International
The first international connections were to England and Norway. The other nations came online in the 1980s and early 1990s. -
Mailing List
In 1975 brought the first mailing list titled SF- Lovers for science fiction fans among ARPA community -
Email message
The first person to send an email message who was not a scientist was Queen Elizabeth the second and she was on the army base at the time. -
NSF
In 1985 the National Science Foundation (NSF) established a new network called NSFNet. NSFNet connected five regional supercomputer centers at Princeton University; University of Pittsburgh; University of California, San Diego; University of Illionis; and Cornell University using high speed connections. -
Senator Al Gore
In 1987 the Senator Al Gore called for a national computer network research. Gore sponsered a bill to fund research to enhance the speed of the Internet backbone the main long distance lines and the hardware that connect computers to the Internet. -
Peer-to-peer
This is media file sharing became bpopular in the 1990s by websites Napster that allowed individual users to upload music files to share them with others without permission from or reimbursement for the copyright.