1. 1962 - Paul Baran of RAND suggests a packet switching network.

  2. 1969 - ARPANET is formed.

  3. 1971 - Ray Tomlinson invents an email program.

  4. 1974 - Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn invent Transmission Control Protocol.

  5. 1979 - Usenet News is started at Duke University.

  6. 1988 - Internet Worm causes havoc on the Net.

  7. 1992 - CERN and Tim Berners-Lee demonstrate the World Wide Web (WWW).

  8. 1993 - Mosaic hits the Net.

  9. 1995 - August 9 - Netscape goes public with the 3rd largest NASDAQ IPO in history.

  10. 1995 - Internet users worldwide protest Communications Decency Act (CDA) by turning their Web pages black.







 

"I've been waiting for three years now for the level of interest to crest and it hasn't... I think the changes over the next five or ten years are really going to be profound, and we're only starting to see some of them."

Marc Andreessen