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History of the Internet

Evolution of the Internet

Internet Archaeology

Evolution of Usenet

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Hobbes' Internet Timeline

How the Internet Came to be

Hacker History ( PDF )

Proposed Declaration of the Rights of Netizens

• Internet History -- One-Page Summary

• Vannevar Bush Envisions Memex

• Norbert Wiener Invents Cybernetics

• Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE)

• Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference

• DARPA/ARPA -- Defense / Advanced Research Project Agency

• J.C.R. Licklider And The Universal Network

• Marshall McLuhan Foresees The Global Village

• Paul Baran Invents Packet Switching

• UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) & Donald Davies

• IPTO -- Information Processing Techniques Office

• Leonard Kleinrock Helps Build The ARPANET

• Lawrence Roberts Manages The ARPANET Program

• IMP -- Interface Message Processor

• ARPANET -- The First Internet

• NCP -- Network Control Program

• Robert Kahn -- TCP/IP Co-Designer

• Vinton Cerf -- TCP/IP Co-Designer

• TCP/IP -- Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

• CSNET -- Computer Science Network

• NSFNET -- National Science Foundation Network

• EUnet -- European Network