Timeline
1958	President Dwight D. Eisenhower saw need for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to keep the U.S. at the forefront of technology.
1962	Leonard Kleinrock invents packet-switching technology.
1963	J.C.R. Licklider, head of computer research at ARPA, articulates vision of worldwide network.
1967	Larry Roberts publishes a paper proposing the ARPAnet network.
1968	DOD initiates the ARPAnet development.
1969	ARPAnet unveiled at UCLA.
1972	E-mail introduced by Ray Tomlinson.
1988	Albert Gore, then a Tennessee senator, proposes the National Research and Education Network, which would provide top computing facilities to research communities and schools.
1991	Gopher document retrieval system introduced at University of Minnesota.
1992	The World Wide Web is born, introduced by Tim Berners-Lee. The first audio and video multicasts are broadcast over the Internet.
1993	The Internet browser MOSAIC is introduced at the University of Illinois by Marc Andreeson.
1994	Real Audio introduced to Internet which allows one to hear audio in near real time. Radio HK, first 24-hour Internet-only radio station, starts broadcasting.
1996	Telecommunications Act of 1996 deregulates data network transmission.
1999	150 million users on the Internet. Over 800 million web pages accessible.