| Year |
Event |
| 1960 |
AT&T introduces the dataphone and the first known MODEM. |
| 1961 |
Leonard Kleinrock publishes his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" is published May 31, 1961. |
| 1962 |
Leonard Kleinrock releases his paper talking about packetization. |
| 1962 |
Paul Baran suggests transmission of data using fixed size message blocks. |
| 1962 |
J.C.R. Licklider becomes the first Director of IPTO and gives his vision of a galactic network. |
| 1964 |
Baran publishes reports "On Distributed Communications." |
| 1964 |
Leonard Kleinrock publishes his first book on packet nets entitled Communication Nets: Stochastic Message Flow and Design. |
| 1965 |
Lawrence G. Roberts with MIT performs the first long distant dial-up connection between a TX-2 computer in Massachusetts and Tom Marill with a Q-32 at SDC in California. |
| 1965 |
Donald Davies coins the word "Packet." |
| 1966 |
Lawrence G. Roberts and Tom Marill publish a paper about their earlier success at connecting over dial-up. |
| 1966 |
Robert Taylor joins ARPA and brings Larry Roberts there to develop ARPANET. |
| 1967 |
Donald Davies creates 1-node NPL packet net. |
| 1967 |
Wes Clark suggests use of a minicomputer for network packet switch. |
| 1968 |
Doug Englebart publicly demonstrates Hypertext on December 9, 1968. |
| 1968 |
The first Network Working Group (NWG) meeting is held. |
| 1968 |
Larry Roberts publishes ARPANET program plan on June 3, 1968. |
| 1968 |
First RFP for a network goes out. |
| 1968 |
UCLA is selected to be the first node on the Internet as we know it today and serve as the Network Msmnt Center. |
| 1969 |
Steve Crocker releases RFC #1 on April 7, 1979 introducing the Host-to-Host and talking about the IMP software. |
| 1969 |
UCLA puts out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on July 3, 1969. |
| 1969 |
On August 29, 1969 the first network switch and the first piece of network equipment (called "IMP", which is short for Interface Message Processor) is sent to UCLA. |
| 1969 |
On September 2, 1969 the first data moves from UCLA host to the IMP switch. |
| 1969 |
CompuServe, the first commercial online service, is established. |
| 1970 |
Steve Crocker and UCLA team releases NCP. |
| 1971 |
Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail, the first messaging system to send messages across a network to other users. |
| 1972 |
First public demo of ARPANET. |
| 1972 |
Norm Abramson' Alohanet connected to ARPANET: packet radio nets. |
| 1973 |
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn design TCP during 1973 and later publish it with the help of Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine in December of 1974 in RFC 675. |
| 1973 |
ARPA deploys SATNET the first international connection. |
| 1973 |
Robert Metcalfe creates the Ethernet at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). |
| 1973 |
The first VoIP call is made. |
| 1974 |
A commercial version of ARPANET known as Telenet is introduced and considered by many to be the first Internet Service Provider (ISP). |
| 1978 |
TCP splits into TCP/IP driven by Danny Cohen, David Reed, and John Shoch to support real-time traffic. This allows the creation of UDP. |
| 1978 |
John Shoch and Jon Hupp at Xerox PARC develop the first worm. |
| 1981 |
BITNET is founded. |
| 1983 |
ARPANET standardizes TCP/IP. |
| 1984 |
Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel introduce DNS. |
| 1986 |
Eric Thomas develops the first Listserv. |
| 1986 |
NSFNET is created. |
| 1986 |
BITNET II is created. |
| 1988 |
First T-1 backbone is added to ARPANET. |
| 1988 |
Bitnet and CSNET merge to create CREN. |
| 1990 |
ARPANET replaced by NSFNET. |
| 1990 |
The first search engine Archie, written by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and Mike Parker at McGill University in Montreal Canada is released on September 10, 1990 |
| 1991 |
Tim Berners-Lee introduces WWW to the public on August 6, 1991. |
| 1991 |
NSF opens the Internet to commercial use. |
| 1992 |
Internet Society formed. |
| 1992 |
NSFNET upgraded to T-3 backbone. |
| 1993 |
The NCSA releases the Mosaic browser. |
| 1994 |
Netscape (Mosaic Communications corporation) is found by Marc Andreesen and James H. Clark April 4, 1994. |
| 1994 |
Mosaic Netscape 0.9, the first Netscape browser is officially released
October 13, 1994. This browser also introduces the Internet to Cookies. |
| 1994 |
WXYC
(89.3 FM Chapel Hill, NC USA) becomes first traditional radio station to
announce broadcasting on the Internet November 7, 1994. |
| 1994 |
Tim
Berners-Lee establishes and heads the W3C in October 1994. |
| 1995 |
The dot-com boom starts. |
| 1995 |
The SSL protocol is developed and
introduced by Netscape in February 1995. |
| 1995 |
On
April 1, 1995 the Opera browser
is released. |
| 1995 |
The first VoIP software (Vocaltec) is released allowing end users to make voice calls over the Internet. |
| 1995 |
On
August 16, 1995 Microsoft introduces and releases Microsoft Internet Explorer. |
| 1995 |
On
November 24, 1995 HTML 2.0 is introduced in RFC 1866. |
| 1995 |
On
December 4, 1995 Sun Microsystems announced JavaScript and first releases
it in Netscape 2.0B3. In the same year they also introduced Java. |
| 1996 |
Telecom Act deregulates data networks. |
| 1996 |
Now
known as Adobe Flash, Macromedia
Flash is introduced in 1996. |
| 1996 |
The
first CSS specification, CSS 1, is
published by the W3C in December
1996. |
| 1996 |
More e-mail is sent than postal mail in USA. |
| 1996 |
CREN ended its support and since then the network has cease to exist. |
| 1997 |
Internet2 consortium is established. |
| 1997 |
IEEE releases 802.11 (WiFi) standard. |
| 1998 |
Internet weblogs begin to appear. |
| 1998 |
XML becomes a W3C recommendation
February 10, 1998. |
| 1999 |
Napster starts sharing files in September of 1999. |
| 1999 |
On December 1, 1999 the most expensive Internet domain name business.com was sold by Marc Ostrofsky for $7.5 Million
The domain was later sold on July 26, 2007 again to R.H. Donnelley for $345
Million USD. |
| 2000 |
The dot-com bubble starts to burst. |
| 2003 |
January 7, 2003 CREN's members decided to dissolve the organization. |
| 2003 |
On
June 30, 2003 the Safari browser is released. |
| 2004 |
On
November 9, 2004 Mozilla releases the Mozilla Firefox browser. |
| 2008 |
On
December 11, 2008 the Google Chrome. |
