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Advanced Research Projects Agency is formed
ARPA is formed in 1958 in response to the sputnik lauch. The agency is formed to lead US Science and technology in military. -
Leonard Kleinrock "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets"
Leonard Kleinrock publishes the first paper on packet-switching theory. -
J.C.R Licklider and W. Clark MIT: "On-Line Man Computer Communication"
Describes Galactic Network concept including distributed social interactions. -
Lawrence G. Roberts, MIT, wrote "Towards a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers"
First ARPANET Plan -
Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents first email program
Ray Tomlinson of BBN (Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc) created the first email system. Send messages over distributed network. an intra-machine email program (SENDMSG), and an experimental file transfer program (CPYNET) -
Ray Tomlinson modifies email program
Tomlinson modifies email program for ARPANET. @ sign, punctuation keys, Model 33 Teletype, meaning at -
Larry Roberts writes first email mangement system
Larry Roberts writes first email managemnet system to list, selectively read, file, forward, as well as respond to messages -
Apple announces Macintosh computer
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniack annouce the Macintosh which allowed people to surf the internet quicker with it's user friendly interface -
Novelist William Gibson writes Neuromancer
Gibson in his book coins the term cyberspace a word was used a lot in later years as well as now. -
ARPANET formally shuts down
ARPANET shuts down which paves the way for the formation of what we know today as the internet.