Internet Timeline

1957-ARPA
(Advanced Research Projects Agency) is formed to establish US lead in
science and technology applicable to the military.
http://www.darpa.mil/
1961-Leonard
Kleinrock publishes paper on packet switching theory.
http://www.rad.com/networks/1998/packet/ps.htm
1962-J.C.R. Licklider envisions a set of globally interconnected
computers through which everyone could access information from any
site.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/licklider.html
1965-Lawrence Roberts creates first wide area computer network by
connecting the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts with the Q-32 in
California.
http://www.ziplink.net/~lroberts/
1966-Lawrence Roberts presents plan for ARPANET
http://www.ziplink.net/~lroberts/SIGCOMM99_files/v3_document.htm
1968-BBN wins ARPANET contract.
http://www.bbn.com/arpanet/index.html
1969-4 host computers are connected together into initial ARPANET.
http://www.securenet.net/members/shartley/history/arpanet.htm
1972-First public demonstration of ARPANET.
http://www.orangepeel.com/en/internet/shortHistory.php
1973-Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf work together to develop TCP/IP.
http://livinginternet.com/i/ii_kahn.htm
1974-Telnet opened
http://www.telnet.org/
1983-TCP/IP becomes universal language of the Internet.
http://www.wvdl.com/Authoring/Tools/Tutorial/TCP_IPbasics.html
1991-NSF lifts restriction on commercial use and WWW is born.
http://www.w3.org/WWW/
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