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A brief history of the Internet from 1960's to today, including both hardware and software innovations.

Created by hancockn on Dec 28, 2010

Last updated: 12/28/10 at 05:12 PM

Tags: Internet history

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Dec 28, 2010 4:52 PM

• Twitter
  2006

• YouTube
  2005

• Second Life
  2003

• Wikipedia
  2001

• Google, Inc.
  Sep 7, 1998

  Google, Inc. is founded.

• Internet privatized
  1995

  NSF transfers management of the Internet backbone to four private corporations. ARPANET is renamed the "Internet".

• First commercial use of the Internet
  1991

  NSF allows the first commercial use of the Internet.

• Wikipedia
  1991

• IETF formed
  1986

  The Internet Engineering Task Force is established to provide a forum for technical coordination of the Internet.

• First BBS
  1985

  The first online bulletin board system (BBS)is created.

• First email service
  1979

  Compuserve offers the first email service to computer-users; AOL and Prodigy follow soon after.

• First Multi-User Domain
  1979

• First commecial network
  1975

  Telenet - the first commercial/civilian equivalent of ARPANET

• First email message
  1971

  Ray Tomlinson sends first email message.

• First ARPANET link established
  Oct 29, 1969

  First ARPANET link established at 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969 between UCLA and Stanford Research Institute. Two more nodes - at University of Callifornia Santa Barbara and University of Utah - were added December 5, 1969.

• J.C.R. Licklider publishes "Man-Computer Symbiosis"
  1960

  http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html