History of Internet

HISTORY OF INTERNET

The history of the Internet begins with the development of electronic computers in the 1950's. Initial concepts of packet networking originated in several computer science laboratories in the United States, Great Britain, and France. The US Department of Defense awarded contracts as early as the 1960's for packet network systems, including the development of theARPANET (which would become the first network to use the Internet Protocol.) The first message was sent over the ARPANET from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to the second network node at Stanford Research Institute(SRI).

• 1961 – First packet-switching papers
• 1966 – Merit Networkfounded
• 1966 – ARPANET planning starts
• 1969 – ARPANET carries its first packets
• 1970 – Mark I network atNPL (UK)
• 1970 – Network Information Center (NIC)
• 1971 – Merit Network'spacket-switched networkoperational
• 1971 – Tymnet packet-switched network
• 1972 – Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) established
• 1973 – CYCLADES network demonstrated
• 1974 – Telenet packet-switched network
• 1976 – X.25 protocol approved
• 1978 – Minitel introduced
• 1979 – Internet Activities Board (IAB)
• 1980 – USENET news usingUUCP
• 1980 – Ethernet standard introduced
• 1981 – BITNET established