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The History of the Internet
1957 - The United States begins the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)to create new forms of technology.
1962 - Paul Baran determines a way for the Air Force to control bombers and missiles in case of a nuclear event. His results call for a network comprised of packet switches.
1968 - ARPA contracts out work to BBN. BBN is called upon to build the first switch.
1969 - BBN creates the first switched network by linking four different nodes in California and Utah; one at the University of Utah, one at the University of California at Santa Barbara, one at Stanford and one at the University of California at Los Angeles.
1972 - Ray Tomlinson working for BBN creates the first program devoted to email.
1972 - ARPA officially changes its name to DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
1972 - Network Control Protocol is introduced to allow computers running on the same network to communicate with each other.
1973 - Vinton Cerf working from Stanford and Bob Kahn from DARPA begin work developing TCP/IP to allow computers on different networks to communicate with each other.
1974 - Kahn and Cerf refer to the system as the Internet for the first time.
1976 - Ethernet is developed by Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe.
1976 - A satellite program is developed to link the United States and Europe.
1976 - AT& T Bell Labs develops UUCP and UNIX.
1979 - USENET, the first news group network is developed by Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis and Steve Bellovin.
1979 - IBM introduces BITNET to work on emails and listserv systems.
1981 - The National Science Foundation releases CSNET 56 to allow computers to network without being connected to the government networks.
1983 - Internet Activities Board released.
1983 - TCP/IP becomes the standard for internet protocol.
1983 - Domain Name System introduced to allow domain names to automatically be assigned an IP number.
1984 - MCI creates T1 lines to allow for faster transportation of information over the internet.
1987 - The new network CREN forms.
1988 - Traffic rises and plans are to find a new replacement for the T1 lines.
1990 - Advanced Network & Services (ANS) forms to research new ways to make internet speeds even faster. The group develops the T3 line and installs in on a number of networks.
1990 - A hypertext system is created and implemented by Tim Berners-Lee while working for CERN.
1991 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) creates the National Research and Education Network (NREN).
1992 - CERN releases the World Wide Web.
1993 - InterNIC released to provide general services, a database and internet directory.
1994 - New netowrks added frequently.
1994 - First internet ordering system created by Pizza Hut.
1994 - First internet bank opened: First Virtual.
1995 - NSF contracts out their access to four internet providers.
1995 - NSF sells domains for a $50 annual fee.
1996 - Internet Service Providers begin appearing such as Sprint and MCI.
1996 - Nokia releases first cell phone with internet access.
1999 - Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) created for cell phones.
2001 - Blackberry releases first internet cell phone in the United States.
For more information on the history of the internet, see:
A Brief History of the Internet
A Little History of the World Wide Web
Internet & World Wide Web History
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