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Sunday, September 5, 2021

Basic timeline of the internet

This post is a basic timeline of the internet. There are 27 events listed below chronologically.

• Paul Baran and Donald Davies propose packet switching independently (1960's)
• First e-mail services (1965)
• ARPANET (1969-1990)
• NPL network (1969)
• File Transfer Protocol (1971)
• CYCLADES project (1971)
• International Networking Working Group (1972)
• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) (1974)
• Internet Protocol (IP) (1974)
• X.25 protocol (1976)
• Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) (1979)
• Usenet (1980)
• Computer Science Network (1981)
• National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) (1985-1995)
• Domain Name System (DNS) (1985)
• Internet Engineering Task Force (1986)
• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (1988)
• World Wide Web (1989)
• Internet Society (1992)
• NCSA Mosaic (1993)
• Netscape Navigator (1994)
• Border Gateway Protocol (1994)
• Classless Inter-Domain Routing (1994)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer (1995)
• ICANN (1998)
• Wireless Application Protocol (1999)
• Dot.com bubble crash (2001)

Sources

Wikipedia: History of the internet, NPL Network, File Transfer Protocol, CYCLADES, International Networking Working Group, Internet Protocol, Usenet, CSNET, National Science Foundation Network, Domain Name System, Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Internet Society, Border Gateway Protocol, Internet Explorer, Wireless Application Protocol