Internet History

Welcome to the Internet Hall of Fame's Living History Timeline      

The Internet Hall of Fame's Living History Timeline explores the history of the Internet and highlights the inductees who have pioneered Internet technology, contributed to ongoing development and innovation and helped expand the Internet's reach across the globe

1957

 USSR Launches Sputnik USSR Launches Sputnik into space and, with it, global communications.

 

1958

Bell Labs Invents Modem Bell Labs researchers invent the modem (modulator - demodulator), which converts digital signals to electrical (analog) signals and back, enabling communication between computers.

1958

U.S. Government Creates ARPA The United States government creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in response to Sputnik launch.

1961

 Leonard Kleinrock Pioneers Packet-Switching Leonard Kleinrock pioneers the packet-switching concept in his Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) doctoral thesis about queueing theory: Information Flow in Large Communication Nets.



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1963

 ASCII Is Developed The first universal standard for computers, ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Exchange) is developed by a joint industry-government committee. ASCII permits machines from different manufacturers to exchange data.

1964 — 1967

Paul Baran, Donald Davies Develop Message Blocks/Packet-switching The Rand Corporation's Paul Baran develops message blocks in the U.S., while Donald Watts Davies, at the National Physical Laboratory in Britain, simultaneously creates a similar technology called packet-switching. The technology revolutionizes data communications

1965

Lawrence Roberts & Thomas Marill Create First Wide-area Network

Lawrence Roberts (MIT) and Thomas Marill get an ARPA contract to create the first wide-area network (WAN) connection via long distant dial-up between a TX-2 computer in Massachusetts and a Q-32 computer in California. The system confirms that packet switching offers the most promising model for communication between computers.

1967

ARPAnet Design Begins

Lawrence Roberts leads ARPAnet design discussions and publishes first ARPAnet design paper: "Multiple Computer Networks and Intercomputer Communication."  Wesley Clark suggests the network is managed by interconnected ‘Interface Message Processors’ in front of the major computers. Called IMPs, they evolve into today’s routers.

1968
Bolt Beranek and Newman Wins IMP Development Contract Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN) is awarded the ARPA contract to build the Interface Message Processors

1968

UCLA Develops ARPAnet Host Level Protocols

Steve Crocker heads UCLA Network Working Group under Professor Leonard Kleinrock to develop host level protocols for ARPAnet communication in preparation for becoming the first node.  The group, which includes Vint Cerf and Jon Postel, lays the foundation for protocols of the modern Internet.

1969
IMP Network Links First Four Nodes The physical Interface Message Processor (IMP) network is constructed, linking four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles, SRI (in Stanford), University of California at Santa Barbara, and University of Utah.

1973

            TCP/IP Protocol Development Begins Development begins on what will eventually be called TCP/IP protocol by a group headed by Vint Cerf (Stanford) and Robert Kahn (DARPA). The new protocol will allow diverse computer networks to interconnect and communicate with each other.

 1974
            Bolt Beranek and Newman Founds Telenet Lawrence Roberts helps Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) found Telenet, the first public packet data service, a commercial version of ARPAnet.

 

1989

Tim Berners-Lee Creates WWW

At CERN, the European Physical Laboratory, Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web. Robert Cailliau is a key proponent of the project, and helps Berners-Lee author a proposal for funding.  Later, Cailliau develops, along with Nicola Pellow, the first web browser for the Mac OS operating system.

 1990
            Linus Torvalds Creates Linux Linus Torvalds creates Linux and becomes a leading supporter of Open Source software.

1991

World Wide Web Opens to Public

The World Wide Web is made available to the public for the first time on the Internet. 

1993

NCSA Releases Mosaic Browser

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) releases the Mosaic browser, which helps popularize the World Wide Web among the general public.

2012
            Internet Society Founds Internet Hall of Fame The Internet Society founds the Internet Hall of Fame and the first 33 members are inducted in a ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland.



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