Internet timeline

ARPAnet is shut down in favor of NSFnet

Theodore Nelson invents the terms "hypertext", "hypermedia", and "world wide web"

Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliar develop hypertext for a scientific info exchange network, which is essentially the web we know today

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has the first web server in the United States

Graphics for the web are developed

Mosaic, a web browseris released

The WWW Conference Committee is formed

The first Trans-Atlantic cable is laid

The first fully operational Trans-Atlantic cable is laid

President Eisenhower creates ARPA

Dr. Leonard Kleinrock writes a paper for transmitting packets of data

J.C.R. Licklider develops the concept of communication through a computer network

Licklider's replacement, Robert Taylor, envisions a computer network that could be used for sites

Robert Taylor forces Larry Roberts to develop what would become ARPAnet

Internet Message Processors are created to link computers even with different operating systems

The first hypertext system is invented at Brown University

ARPA awards a contract to make an Interface Message Processor which allows the internet to exist in the first place

At 10:30 PM on October 29, 1969 the internet first functions

First message is "login" but the system crashes after just "lo" and after an hour the system was finally back online and they were able to transmit the full message

ARPAnet was first connected to four universities, UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and University of Utah

MIT, Harvard, BBM, and Systems Development Corp are connected

107 institutions are connected

First public demonstration of ARPAnet was done at the International Conference on Computer Communications

ARPAnet was split into ARPAnet and MILnet

Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf invent TCP/IP. Versions 4 and 6 along with UDP have become internet standards to this day