Internet

  • First articles on packet switching.

    First articles on packet switching.
  • Foundation of Merit Network

  • Planning ARPANET

  • ARPANET packet carries its first

  • Mark I network in the LNF (UK)

  • Network Information Center (NEIC)

  • Merit Network packet switching's started operations

  • Packet switching network Tymnet

  • Creating Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)

  • Demonstration of the CYCLADES network

  • Packet switching network Telenet

  • Approval of the X.25 protocol

  • Entering Minitel

  • Internet Activities Board (IAB)

  • Usenet via UUCP

  • Presentation of the Ethernet standard

  • Bitnet

  • Computer Science Network (CSNET)

  • Formalization of the TCP / IP protocol

  • Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

  • Domain Name System (DNS)

  • MILNET separated from ARPANET

  • First .COM domain name registered

  • NSFNET with leagues of 56 kbit / s

  • Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

  • UUNET

  • NSFNET upgraded to 1.5 Mbit / s (T1)

  • Presentation of OSI Reference Model

  • Morris worm

  • ARPANET withdrawal

  • PSINet created, allowing commercial traffic

  • Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

  • Federal Internet Exchanges (fixes)

  • GOSSIP (no TCP / IP)

  • Advanced Network and Services(ANS)

  • UUNET / Alternet allows commercial traffic

  •  Archie search engine

  • Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX)

  • Gopher

  • World Wide Web (WWW)

  • Wide Area Information Server (WAIS)

  • ANS CORE allows commercial traffic

  • NSFNET upgraded to 45 Mbit / s (T3)

  •  Internet Society (ISOC)

  • Classless Inter-Domain Routing(CIDR)

  • InterNIC

  • Mosaic web browser first browser Internet.1

  • Full text web search engines

  • North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG)

  • New Internet architecture with commercial ISPs connected conNAPs

  • NSFNET is removed

  • GOSSIP is updated to allow TCP / IP

  •  very high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS)

  • Introducing IPv6

  •  Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

  • IEEE 802.11b wireless networks

  •  Internet2/Abilene Network

  • vBNS allow greater access

  • Dot-com bubble bursts

  • New top-level domain names activated

  • I worms Code Red, Code Red II, and Nimda

  • National LambdaRail

  • First meeting of the Internet Governance Forum

  • First registration of internationalized country code top-level domains

  •  ICANN begins accepting applications for new generic top-level domain names