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)

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