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History of the Internet
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JT Cunningham
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Events
Atlantic Cable was Laid
Subsequent tables were laid
Sputnik was launched
Eisenhower approved the creation of the ARPA
Licklider developed concept of a network
Robert Taylor suggests that existing machines could be used to link sites
Leonard Kleinrock develops principle of transmitting data as "packets"
ARPA awards contract to the Bolt Corporation
Kleinrock sets up ARPANET
MIT, Harvard, BBN and Systems where added to Arpanet
Stanford, Lincoln Lab were added
Robert Kahn introduced the concept of an open architecture
NSFNet was placed in operation
ARPANET is shut down
Vannevar Bush proposes Memex, which is a way to store data
Cailliau and Lee develop hypertext
Graphical is developed
Steve Jobs goes back to Apple Computers
Stanford Linear Acceleration Center becomes first Web server
Mosaic is released by National Center for Supercomputing Applications
W3W Conference is held
Periods
Director of Defense assigns a Command and Control Project to the ARPA
