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Soviet lunches the first man made satellite, Sputnik.
The satellite was named Sputnik and it didnt do much but float around space. -
Bells Lab Invents Modem
his labs creates the modem, which changes digital signal to electrical signal and back, allowing communication between computers. -
U.S. Goverment Creates ARPA
The United States government creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in response to Sputnik launch. -
Leonard Kleinrock Pioneers Packet-Switching
he created this concept in his MIT doctoral thesis about queueing theory -
J.C.R. Licklider Conceives Intergalactic Network
Licklider writes memos about his Intergalactic Network idea of networked computers. Also he becomes the first head of the computer research program at ARPA. -
ASCII Is Developed
The very first univeral standard for computers which was developed by a joint-government comittee. -
Paul Baran, Donald Davies Develop Message Blocks/Packet-switching
Paul Baran creates a message blocks in the U.S., while Donald Watts Davies simultaneously creates a similar technology called packet-switching. The technology completely changes data communications. -
ARPA Sponsors Networking Study
ARPA sponsors study on "cooperative network of time-sharing computers." -
Lawrence Roberts & Thomas Marill Create First Wide-area Network
Lawrence Roberts and Thomas Marill get a contract from ARPA to create the first wide-area network (WAN) connection for long distant dial-up between a TX-2 computer in Massachusetts and a Q-32 computer in California. The system offers the most promising model for communication between computers. -
ARPAnet Project Initiated
Robert Taylor, the director of the ARPA's computer program, initiates the ARPAnet project, the foundation for today’s Internet. -
Lawrence Roberts Leads Networking Experiment
Building on the 1965 “Cooperative Network of Time-sharing Computers”,Lawrence Roberts comes to ARPA to help create the networking experiment and develop the first ARPAnet plan. -
ARPAnet Design Begins
Roberts directs ARPAnet design discussions and publishes first ARPAnet design paper: "Multiple Computer Networks and Intercomputer Communication." Clark suggests the network is managed by interconnected ‘Interface Message Processors’ in front of the major computers. Called IMPs, they evolve into today’s routers. -
Donald Davies Publishes First Packet-switching Paper
Donald Watts Davies publishes his paper on “packet-switching,” the term he coins. -
Engelbart Makes His Mother of All Demos Presentation
creates a "Mother of All Demos" presentaions to introduce hypertexting and collaborative computing for the first time. -
Key Internet Protocols Implemented
Dr. David Clark starts Internet protocols for the Multics systems, the Xerox PARC ALTO and the IBM PC -
Ray Tomlinson Invents Email
Ray Tomlinson, invents the email program to send messages across a distributed network. -
First Email in Germany
The first email arrives in Germany from the U.S. on August 3, 1984. -
World Wide Web Opens to Public
The World Wide Web is made available to the public for the first time on the Internet. -
Blogs First Appear
The First blog was created and was introduced to the world -
Jimmy Wales Launches Wikipedia
