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How It Started
The original idea of the Internet is credited to Leonard Kleinrock after he published his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" -
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History of the Internet
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ARPANET
in 1962, J.C.R. Licklider gave his vision of a galactic network. With ideas from Licklider and Kleinrock, Robert Taylor helped create the idea of the network that later became ARPANET. -
First Meeting
In the summer of 1968, the Network Working Group had their first meeting at the Stanford Research Institute. Other attendees included Steve Carr, Steve Crocker, and more. In the meeting, the group discussed solving issues related to getting hosts to communicate with each other. -
First Network Switch
On August 29, 1969, the first network switch and the first piece of equipment called IMP is sent to UCLA. -
First Message
On Friday October 29, 1969 at 10:30 p.m., the first Internet message was sent from computer science Professor Leonard KleinRock's laboratory at UCLA. -
World Wide Web
Berners-Lee develops a new way for distributing information on the Internet. He calls it the World Wide Web. The Web is based on hypertext, which permits the user to connect from one document to another at different sites on the Internet via links. Unlike other Internet protocols, like email and FTB, the Web is usable through a graphical user interface. -
Everyone Uses the Internet
Approximately 45 million people are using the Internet, with roughly 30 million of those in North America. U.S. households own a personal computer, and 14 million of them are online.