| Network Timesharing, the concept of linking a
large numbers of users to a single computer via remote terminals, is
developed at MIT in the late 50s and early 60s.
1962: Paul Baran of RAND develops the idea of distributed,
packet-switching networks.
ARPANET goes online in 1969. Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf develop the basic
ideas of the Internet in 1973.
In 1974 BBN opens the first public
packet-switched network - Telenet.
A UUCP link between the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University establishes USENET in
1979. The first MUD is also developed in 1979, at the University of Essex.
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol) is
established as the standard for ARPANET in 1982.
1987: the number of
network hosts breaks 10,000. 1989: the number of hosts breaks 100,000.
Tim Berners-Lee develops the World Wide Web. CERN releases the first Web
server in 1991. 1992: the number of hosts breaks 1,000,000.
The World
Wide Web sports a growth rate of 341,634% in service traffic in its third
year, 1993. The main U.S. Internet backbone traffic begins routing
through commercial providers as NSFNET reverts to a research network in
1994. The Internet 1996 World Exposition is the first World's Fair to be
held on the internet. |