| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1957 | The Soviet Union launches Sputnik |
| Shortly thereafter | U.S. Department of Defense forms ARPA |
| 1961 | Len Kleinrock, an MIT grad student, writes paper describing technology later called 'packet switching' |
| By 1968 | ARPA have issued specs for the ARPANET |
| Sept. 2, 1969 | In Professor Len Kleinrock's lab at UCLA, two computers are connected as first piece of the ARPANET |
| Oct. 1969 | Stanford Research Institute joins the ARPANET |
| By Jan. 1970 | UC Santa Barbara and University of Utah have joined the ARPANET |
| By July 1970 | Six more institutions have joined the ARPANET |
| 1972 | E-mail appears |
| 1974 | Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn propose a protocol (TCP/IP) that will allow ARPANET to talk to other networks |
| Jan. 1, 1983 | TCP/IP becomes the standard communications protocol for the Internet |
| 1991 | CERN releases HTML and begins the World Wide Web |
| 1993 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's NCSA releases Mosaic |
| Dec. 14, 1994 | The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is formally established |
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