Internet Timeline
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Updated: 27 Feb 2023
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Created byAngel Castaneda Pacheco
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J.C.R Licklider envisions the "Galactic Network" concept. The initial concept of the Internet.Leonard Kleinrock publishes the first paper on packet switching theoryLawrence G. Roberts & Thomas Merrill create the first WANAt DARPA, Lawrence G. Roberts publishes the plan for the ARPANETDARPA requests the creation of Interface Message Processors, the first packet router. Bol Beranek and Newman make the IMPsSteve Crocker of UCLA creates RFC (Request for Comments)the first IMP is installed and the first host computer is connectedNetwork Working Group creates the Network Control ProtocolEmail is createdBob Kahn creates the "Internetting" program at DARPAKhan and Vint Cerf create TCP/IPBob Metcalfe at Xerox PaRC develops EthernetVint Cerf creates the Interent Configuration Control BoardARPANET switches from NCP to TCP/IPPaul Mockapetris of USC/ISI invents DNSICCB disbanded, replaced by Internet Activites BoardUS NSFNET funds universities to provide internet connectivity to all qualified users on campus. TCP/IP is mandatoryNSF encourages "the commercialization and privatization of the internet"
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