1974-1983
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1974
First Use of term Internet by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in paper on Transmission Control Protocol.
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1976
Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe develops Ethernet, which allowed coaxial cable to move
data extremely fast. This was a crucial component to the development of LANs.
The packet satellite project went into practical use. SATNET, Atlantic packet
Satellite network, was born. This network linked the United States with
Europe.Surprisingly, it used INTELSAT satellites that were owned by a consortium
of countries and not exclusively the United States government.
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) developed at AT&T Bell Labs and distributed with
UNIX one year later.
The Department of Defense began to experiment with the TCP/IP protocol and soon
decided to require it for use on ARPANET.
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1979
USENET (the decentralized news group network) was created by Steve Bellovin,
a graduate student at University of North Carolina, and programmers Tom Truscott
and Jim Ellis. It was based on UUCP.
The Creation of BITNET, by IBM, "Because its Time Network", introduced
the "store and forward" network. It was used for email and listservs.
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1981
National Science Foundation created backbone called CSNET 56 Kbps network for institutions without access to ARPANET. Vinton Cerf proposed a plan for an inter-network connection between CSNET and the ARPANET.
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1983
Internet Activities Board (IAB) was created in 1983.
On January 1st, every machine connected to ARPANET had to use TCP/IP. TCP/IP
became the core Internet protocol and replaced NCP entirely.
The University of Wisconsin created Domain Name System (DNS). This allowed
packets to be directed to a domain name, which would be translated by the server
database into the corresponding IP number. This made it much easier for people
to access other servers, because they no longer had to remember numbers.