1. 1957-USSR Launches Sputnik
USSR Launches Sputnik into
space and, with it, global
communications
1958-Bell Labs Invents Modem
Bell Labs researchers invent the
modem, communication
between computers.
1961-Leonard Kleinrock Pioneers
Packet-switching concept in his
Information Flow in Large
Communication Nets.
1962-J.C.R. Licklider Conceives
Intergalactic Network. first head of the
computer research program at ARPA.
1963-ASCII Is Developed by a joint
industrygovernment committe. It
permits machines from different
manufacturers to exchange data.

2. 1965-ARPA Sponsors Networking Study
ARPA sponsors study on "cooperative
network of time-sharing computers."
1965- Lawrence Roberts & Thomas Marill
Create First Wide-area Network.
Connection via long distant dial-up
between a TX-2 computer in
Massachusetts and a Q-32 computer in
California.
1967- ARPAnet Design Begins. Network is
managed by interconnected ‘Interface
Message Processors’ in front of the major
computers. Called IMPs, they evolve into
today’s routers.
1968- Bolt Beranek and Newman Wins IMP
Development Contract. Awarded the ARPA
contract to build the Interface Message
Processors.
1969-The physical Interface Message
Processor (IMP) network is constructed,
linking four nodes: University of California
at Los Angeles, SRI (in Stanford), University
of California at Santa Barbara, and
University of Utah.
1972-IMP Network Grows Fifteen nodes
(23 hosts) comprise the IMP network.

3. 1973-University College of London
Establishes First International ARPAnet
Link by University College of London
(England) via NORSAR (Norway).
1974-Elizabeth “Jake” Feinler begins to
help lead SRI International’s Network
Information Center (NIC), As a part of
this effort she and her group develop
the top-level domain naming schemes
of .com, .edu, .gov, .mil, .org, and .net.
1974-Vint Cerf, Robert Kahn Coin
'Internet'. They publish "A Protocol for
Packet Network Interconnection"
which specifies in detail the design of a
Transmission Control Program (TCP).
1974-Lawrence Roberts helps Bolt
Beranek and Newman (BBN) found
Telenet, the first public packet data
service.
1977-Lawrence Landweber Creates
Computer Science Network. By 1984 ,
over 180 universities, industrial and
government computer science
department are participating in
CSNET.

4. 1982-Kilnam Chon, develops the first
Internet connection in Asia, called
SDN, and his pioneering work inspires
others to promote the Internet’s
regional growth.
1984- The first email arrives in
Germany from the U.S. on August 3,
1984. "Willkommen CSNET," it says.
1988-1989-Van Jacobson develops
algorithms for the Transmission
Control Protocol (TCP) that help solve
the problem of congestion and are
still used in over 90% of Internet hosts
today.
1989-Geoff Huston leads the effort to
bring the Internet from the academic
and research sector to the Australian
public.
1990-Linus Torvalds creates Linux and
becomes a leading supporter of Open
Source software.

5. 1991-The World Wide Web is made
available to the public for the first
time on the Internet.
1992-Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn found
the Internet Society. Meanwhile, hosts
on the Internet pass the one million
mark.
1996-There is more email than postal
mail in the U.S., and Brewster Kahle
founds the Internet Archive, a free
digital library with a mission to
provide “universal access to all
knowledge.”
1998-The advent of web publishing
tools available to non-technical users
spurs the rise of blogs.
2000-Aaron Swartz co-creates RSS, a
program that collects news from
various web pages and puts them in
one place for readers.

6. 2001-Jimmy Wales launches
Wikipedia. There are half a
million Internet users.
2006-Dr. Nancy Hafkin authors
Cinderella or Cyberella?:
Empowering Women in the
Knowledge Society.
2010-China dominates Internet
usage.
2012-The Internet Society
founds the Internet Hall of
Fame and the first 33 members
are inducted in a ceremony in
Geneva, Switzerland.