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To: Enlightened1
1972: BBN’s Ray Tomlinson introduces network email. The Internetworking Working Group (INWG) forms to address need for establishing standard protocols.

1973: Global networking becomes a reality as the University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway) connect to ARPANET. The term Internet is born.

1974: The first Internet Service Provider (ISP) is born with the introduction of a commercial version of ARPANET, known as Telenet.

1974: Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn (the duo said by many to be the Fathers of the Internet) publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection," which details the design of TCP.

1976: Queen Elizabeth II hits the “send button” on her first email.

1979: USENET forms to host news and discussion groups.

1981: The National Science Foundation (NSF) provided a grant to establish the Computer Science Network (CSNET) to provide networking services to university computer scientists.

1982: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), as the protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, emerge as the protocol for ARPANET. This results in the fledgling definition of the Internet as connected TCP/IP internets. TCP/IP remains the standard protocol for the Internet.

1983: The Domain Name System (DNS) establishes the familiar .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int system for naming websites. This is easier to remember than the previous designation for websites, such as 123.456.789.10.

2 posted on 05/29/2018 5:36:28 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

I sent my first email in summer 1984, on a backwater part of CSNET in Oklahoma...


3 posted on 05/29/2018 5:42:58 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: Enlightened1

Where’s Al Gore?


4 posted on 05/29/2018 5:43:46 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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Mosaic came out in 1993. Prior to this we had a book of IP addresses and had to enter each in order to access the sites’ servers.


12 posted on 05/29/2018 6:57:21 AM PDT by Yulee
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