| 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. |
