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Creation of ARPA
ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) was established by the U.S. Department of Defense in Response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik 1. -
Speculation of a Worldwide Communication Network
Licklider proposed a vision of a worldwide interconnected network. Computers connected to the network would be able to information in a way that had not been possible before. -
Concept of the Wide Area Network
Lawrence Roberts and Thomas Merrill perform the Wide Area Network experiment. -
ARPANET Official Presentation
The initial plan for ARPANET was presented at the 1967 ACM Symposium -
BBN is Contracted to build ARPANET
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First Transmission
The first message of "LOGIN" is sent across the network. -
ARPANET access at UCLA
The first ARPANET node is installed at UCLA -
Network Expansion
Three mode access points were installed at Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, and University of Utah. -
Introduction of Email
Ray Tomlinson introduces the idea of email on ARPANET. -
TCP & IP Development
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn begin development on the TCP and IP communication standards. -
International Connections
ARPANET access points were installed at University College London and NORSAR. -
Operational Status Declaration
ARPANET was declared fully operational by the Defense Communications Agency. -
TCP & IP Standardization
TCP IP becomes the official communication protocols for ARPANET. -
Domain Name System Introduced
DNS is introduced to ARPANET to simplify IP address retrieval. -
ARPANET is Decommissioned
