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Launched by USSR
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John Licklider
Licklider published a paper called the "Galactic Network" where he set out his vision of a computer network that was accessible to everyone. -
Computer Research Program
Leonard Kleinrock published Information Flow in Large Communication Nets -
Plans for ARPANET were published
When ARPANET was published, turns out that teams at MIT, the National Physics Laboratory and by RAND Corporation were all been working on similar ideas. -
ARPANET starts growing
ARPANET started to grow so much that by 1969 it was made up of four host computers as with the addition of research centres in Santa Barbara and Utah. -
Goes public
The first public demonstration of ARPANET at the First International Conference on Computers and Communication in Washington D.C where computers from 40 different locations were networked together, -
TCP/IP
development of transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) at ARPA -
Emoticons
Kevin Mackenzie suggested the use of emoticons in the dry text. -
Introduction of DNS = Data Network Service
Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel introduce DNS.
