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Leonard Kleinrock at MIT published first paper on packet switching theory
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First recorded description of social interactions
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First head of the computer research program at DARPA
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First book on the subject
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Merit Network was founded
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Roberts went to DARPA to develop computer network concept and quickly put togheter his plan for ARPANET
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Publish ARPANET
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Network information center
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Mark I network at NPL
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Tymnet packet-switched network
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Merit Network's packet-switched network operational
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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) established
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CYCLADES network demonstrated
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Telenet packet-switched network
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X.25 protocol approved
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Minitel introduced
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Minitel introduced
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Internet Activities Board (IAB)
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Internet Activities Board (IAB)
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Ethernet standard introduced
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USENET news using UUCP
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BITNET established
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Computer Science Network (CSNET)
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
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TCP/IP protocol suite formalized
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MILNET split off from ARPANET
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Domain Name System (DNS)
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First .COM domain name registered
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NSFNET with 56 kbit/s links
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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UUNET founded
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NSFNET upgraded to 1.5 Mbit/s (T1)
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OSI Reference Model released
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Morris worm
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Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
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PSINet founded, allows commercial traffic
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Federal Internet Exchanges (FIXes)
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GOSIP (without TCP/IP)
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ARPANET decommissioned
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Advanced Network and Services (ANS)
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UUNET/Alternet allows commercial traffic
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Archie search engine
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Wide area information server (WAIS)
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Gopher
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World Wide Web (WWW)
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NSFNET upgraded to 45 Mbit/s (T3)
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Internet Society (ISOC) established
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Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
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Mosaic web browser released
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Full text web search engines
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North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) established