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| Evoulution of the Internet Timeline...... |
| 1962- The Rand Corporation begins research into robust, distributed communication networks for military command and control. |
| 1965- The Department of Defense's Advanced Research Project Association begins work on "ARPANET." |
| 1967- First ARPANET papers presented at Association for Computing Machinery Symposium. |
| 1968- First Generation of networking hardware and software designed. |
| 1969- ARPANET connects first 4 universities in the United States. Researchers at four US campuses create the first host of ARPANET, connecting Stanford Research Institute, UCLA, University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah. |
| 1971- The ARPANET grows to 23 hosts connecting universities and government research centers aaround the country. |
| 1973- The ARPANET goes international with connections to the University College in London, England and the Royal Radar Establishment in Norway. |
| 1974- Bolt, Beranek and Newman opens Telenet, the first commercial version of the ARPANET. |
| 1975- Internet operations transferred to the Defense Communications Agency. |
| 1978- TCP checksum design finalized. |
| 1979- Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis establish the first USENET newsgroups. Users from all over the World join these discussion groups to talk about the net, politics, religion and thousands of other subjects. |
| 1981- ARPANET has 213 hosts. A new host is added about every 20 days. |
| 1982-1987- Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf are key members of a team which creates TCP/IP, the comman language of all Internet computers. |
| 1983- TCP/IP becomes the universal language of the Internet. |
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