The document outlines the history and development of the Internet from its earliest origins with Morse code and undersea telegraph cables facilitating basic telecommunications, to the creation of ARPANET in the 1960s and the development of TCP/IP in the 1970s allowing for a more advanced global network. It then discusses key milestones like the introduction of email in the 1980s, the creation of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s which popularized access to information on the Internet, and the commercialization and widespread adoption of the Internet in the later 1990s.

1. History of
Internet
• Morse Code a series of dots and dashes used
to communicate between humans.
• Revolutionised human (tele)communications
• is a submarine communications
cable connecting one side of the Atlantic
Ocean to the other.
•Telephones exchanges provide the backbone of
Internet connections today
•is a telecommunications device that permits two
or more users to conduct a conversation when
they are not in the same vicinity of each other to
be heard directly.
• The start of global telecommunications.
Satellites play an important role in
transmitting all sorts of data today.
• first artificial earth satellite.
• Data is split into tiny packets that may take
different routes to a destination.
• More than one route available -- if one route
goes down another may be followed.
•ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into
networking
•is a global system of interconnected computer
networks that use the standard Internet protocol
suite (TCP/IP) to serve several billion users
worldwide.

2. • Ethernet outlined -- this how local networks
are basically connected today.
• Internet ideas started.
• is a method of exchanging digital messages
from an author to one or more recipients.
Modern email operates across
the Internet or other computer networks.
Some early email systems required that the
author and the recipient both be online at
the same time, in common with instant
messaging.
• Computer Science Department research
computer network established in USA.
• USENET established using UUCP.

3. • BITNET, the "Because It's Time NETwork"
Started as a cooperative network at the
City University of New York, with the first
connection to Yale
• Provides electronic mail and listserv
servers to distribute information, as well
as file transfers
• CSNET (Computer Science NETwork)
established to provide networking services
(specially E-mail) to university scientists
with no access to ARPANET. CSNET later
becomes known as the Computer and
Science Network
• DCA and ARPA establishes the Transmission
Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol
(IP), as the protocol suite, commonly known
as TCP/IP, for ARPANET.
•Name server developed.
•Desktop workstations come into being.
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4. • Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX)
Association, Inc. formed after NSF lifts
restrictions on the commercial use of the Net.
• Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS)
• Gopher released by Paul Lindner and Mark P.
McCahill from the U of Minnesota.
• World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN;
Tim Berners-Lee developer.
• Number of hosts breaks 1 Million. News
groups 4,000
• Internet Society (ISOC) is chartered.
• First MBONE audio multicast (March) and
video multicast (November).
• The term "Surfing the Internet" is coined by
Jean Armour Polly.
• Business and Media really take notice of the
Internet.
• Number of Hosts 2 Million. 600 WWW sites.
• Local communities begin to be wired up
directly to the Internet
• Shopping malls, banks arrive on the Internet
•The WWW browser war begins , fought primarily
between Netscape and Microsoft, has rushed in a
new age in software development, whereby new
releases are made quarterly with the help of
Internet users eager to test upcoming (beta)
versions.
1997 – The big question is what’s Next?
19.5 Million Hosts, 1 Million WWW sites, 71,618 Newsgroups

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Citations:
http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/davemarsh-timeline-1.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_communications_cable
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email