
Timeline | |
| 1958 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower saw need for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to keep the |
| 1962 | Leonard Kleinrock invents packet-switching technology. |
| 1963 | J.C.R. Licklider, head of computer research at ARPA, articulates vision of worldwide network. |
| 1967 | Larry Roberts publishes a paper proposing the ARPAnet network. |
| 1968 | DOD initiates the ARPAnet development. |
| 1969 | ARPAnet unveiled at UCLA. |
| 1972 | E-mail introduced by Ray Tomlinson. |
| 1988 | Albert Gore, then a |
| 1991 | Gopher document retrieval system introduced at |
| 1992 | The World Wide Web is born, introduced by Tim Berners-Lee. The first audio and video multicasts are broadcast over the Internet. |
| 1993 | The Internet browser MOSAIC is introduced at the |
| 1994 | Real Audio introduced to Internet which allows one to hear audio in near real time. Radio HK, first 24-hour Internet-only radio station, starts broadcasting. |
| 1996 | Telecommunications Act of 1996 deregulates data network transmission. |
| 1999 | 150 million users on the Internet. Over 800 million web pages accessible. |


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