The evolution of the web

Advanced Research Projects Agency is formed

Jan 30, 1958

ARPA is formed in 1958 in response to the sputnik lauch. The agency is formed to lead US Science and technology in military.

Leonard Kleinrock "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets"

May 31, 1961

Leonard Kleinrock publishes the first paper on packet-switching theory.

J.C.R Licklider and W. Clark MIT: "On-Line Man Computer Communication"

Aug 30, 1962

Describes Galactic Network concept including distributed social interactions.

Lawrence G. Roberts, MIT, wrote "Towards a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers"

Oct 30, 1966

First ARPANET Plan

Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents first email program

Oct 1, 1971

Ray Tomlinson of BBN (Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc) created the first email system. Send messages over distributed network. an intra-machine email program (SENDMSG), and an experimental file transfer program (CPYNET)

Ray Tomlinson modifies email program

Mar 3, 1972

Tomlinson modifies email program for ARPANET. @ sign, punctuation keys, Model 33 Teletype, meaning at

Larry Roberts writes first email mangement system

Jul 27, 1972

Larry Roberts writes first email managemnet system to list, selectively read, file, forward, as well as respond to messages

Apple announces Macintosh computer

Jan 1, 1984

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniack annouce the Macintosh which allowed people to surf the internet quicker with it's user friendly interface

Novelist William Gibson writes Neuromancer

Feb 27, 1984

Gibson in his book coins the term cyberspace a word was used a lot in later years as well as now.

ARPANET formally shuts down

Feb 28, 1990

ARPANET shuts down which paves the way for the formation of what we know today as the internet.