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Strachey and McCarthy present proposal for time sharing.
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Leonard Kleinrock presents first paper on the packet switching theory.
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Paul Baren's publishes, On Distributed Communications.
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Derek Barber and his team at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) develop Mark I.
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The Interface Message Processor (IMP) is released by Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)
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First node installed at UCLA
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First four nodes form the ARPANET.
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Steve Crocker invents the Request for Comments (RFC) to share notes with other networks.
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Lawrence Roberts and Barry Wessler publish "Computer Network Development to Achieve Resource Sharing"
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Ray Tomlinson invents electronic mail.
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Bob Metcalfe invents the Ethernet, which allowed multiple computers to work at once.
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The Mark II succeeds the Mark I with a faster computer and new software with the help of Donald Davies.
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Lawrence Landweber helps launches the Computer Science Network (CSNET)
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Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Information Protocol (IP) were invented to efficiently address and convert packets.
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The Domain Name System is created to organize the websites in the World Wide Web.
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The NSFNET replaces the ARPANET, which was faster and more advanced.
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CERN diversifies the Internet by creating the World Wide Web.
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Marc Andreeson releases the browser Netscape.
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The first free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is released.
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A group of Harvard students releases the social media site, Facebook, to young adults.
