A Brief History of the Internet and the Web

1957: The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is formed by the Department of Defense (DoD)              USA.
1959: Len Kleinrock writes a paper on packet switching.
1967: The initial designs of the ARPANET are published.
1969: DoD begins development of the ARPANET
1970: ARPANET begins using the Network Control Protocol (NCP)
1972: InterNetworking Working Group(INWG) formed to promote agreed standards. Specifications of              telnet, proposed.
1973: The ethernet idea is outlined in Bob Metcalfe's PhD thesis. Specifications for File Transfer, RFC              454, is proposed.
1974: The design of TCP/IP is described in detail by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in "A Protocol for Packet              Network Intercommunication".
1982: TCP/IP becomes the protocol for the ARPANET and is specified by the DoD.
1992: The number of Internet hosts exceeds 1,000,000. Tim Berners Lee found editors and browsers. The           University of Nevada issued the Veronica system. A WWW browser named Viola launched by Pei              Wei and distributed with CERN WWW.
1993: NSF creates InterNIC to run Internet services such as registration domain.The first version of                      Mosaic (for X Window) developed by Marc Andreesen issued by the NCSA White House online.              National Information The Infrastructure Act passed and the United States government began to take           it more seriously website handling.
1994: PizzaHut online, the first example of a commercial Internet application. Spam mail became a big              case after a legal institution called Canter & Siegel spread the mail around the world about the                  service to get "green card". First Virtual ran the first "CyberBank". In 1994 Yahoo! was founded and           also became the birth year of Netscape Navigator 1.0.
1995: Compuserve, America Online, and Prodiy start providing access services to the Internet. Marc                  Andreesen's company, Netscape Communication Corporation, became public and became the 3rd              highest price for the Initial Public Offering (IPO) share in NASDAQ. NFS no longer makes domain           registration free. Domain user starts paying for a domain that is used and hosted on the internet.