IP: part 3 Next Generation Internet

[Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

                       INTERNET TIMELINE




1969 	  Defense Department commissions ARPANET to promote 
          networking research.


1974 	  Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf publish paper which specifies 
          protocol for data networks.


1981 	  NSF provides seed money for CSNET (Computer Science 
          NETwork) to connect U.S. computer science departments.


1982 	  Defense Department establishes TCP/IP (Transmission 
          Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) as standard.


1984 	  Number of hosts (computers) connected to the Internet 
          breaks 1,000.


1986 	  NSFNET and 5 NSF-funded supercomputer centers created.  
          NSFNET backbone is 56 kilobits/second.


1989 	  Number of hosts breaks 100,000.


1991 	  NSF lifts restrictions on commercial use of the 
          Internet.


     	  High Performance Computing Act, authored by 
          then-Senator Gore, is signed into law.


     	  World Wide Web software released by CERN, the European 
          Laboratory for Particle Physics.


1993 	  President Clinton and Vice President Gore get e-mail 
          addresses.


     	  Mosaic, a graphical "Web browser" developed at the 
          NSF-funded National Center for Supercomputing 
          Applications, is released.  Traffic on the World Wide 
          Web explodes.


1994 	  White House goes on-line with "Welcome to the White 
                                                            House
                                                            ."	 
                                                            	 


1995 	  U.S. Internet traffic now carried by commercial 
          Internet service providers.


1996 	  Number of Internet hosts reaches 12.8 million.


     	  President Clinton and Vice President Gore announce 
          "Next Generation Internet" initiative.



[Source:  Hobbes' Internet Timeline, v. 2.5]