History of Computer Network Era (Late 50s to present)

1.    Timesharing, the concept of linking a large numbers of users to a single computer via remote terminals, is developed at MIT in the late 50s and early 60s.

2.    Paul Baran of RAND develops the idea of distributed, packet-switching networks.

3.    ARPANET goes online in 1969.

4.    Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf develop the basic ideas of the Internet in 1973.

5.    In 1974 BBN opens the first public packet-switched network –Telenet.

6.    A UUCP link between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University establishes USENET in 1979.

7.    TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol) is established as the standard for ARPANET in 1982.

8.    The number of network hosts breaks 10,000 in 1987; two years later, the number of hosts breaks 100,000.

9.    Tem Berners-Lee develops the World Wide Web. CERN releases the first Web server in 1991.

10. By 1992, the number of network hosts breaks 1,000,000.

11. The World Wide Web sports a growth rate of 341,634% in service traffic in its third year--1993.