//The History of the Internet
//Discovered and Prepared on 10-28-02
//Source: http://www.internetvalley.com/archives/mirrors/davemarsh-timeline-1.htm
//Prepared from the web page. 
//By Rich Q.
//CSE 143 JA TA:Jesse Kinkaid
//Homework 2
1836
Telegraph
1858
Transatlantic cable
1876
Telephone
1957
Sputnik - first artificial earth satellite - the start of global telecommunications
1962
Packet-switching (PS) networks developed
1969
Birth of Internet
1971
E-mail invented - messaging - 15 nodes (23 hosts) on ARPANET
1972
Internetworking Working Group (INWG) created to address need for establishing agreed upon protocols
1973
Gateway architecture sketched on back of envelope in hotel lobby in San Francisco
1974
Packets become mode of transfer
1976
Queen Elizabeth sends out an e-mail
1977
Number of hosts breaks 100
1979
News Groups born - First MUD (Multiuser Dungeon)
1982
DCA and ARPA establishes the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP)
1983
Name server developed - Desktop workstations come into being
1984
Number of hosts breaks 1,000 - Domain Name Server (DNS) introduced
1986
5, 000 Hosts - 241 News groups - NSFNET created (backbone speed of 56 Kbps)
1987
Commercialisation of Internet Born - Number of hosts 28,000
1988
NSFNET backbone upgraded to T1 (1.544 Mbps) - Internet Relay Chat (IRC) developed
1989
Number of hosts breaks 100,000
1990
300,000 Hosts - 1,000 News groups - The World comes on-line (world.std.com), becoming the first commercial provider of Internet dial-up access
1991
Friendly User Interface to WWW established - NSFNET backbone upgraded to T3 (44.736 Mbps)
1992
Number of hosts breaks 1 Million - News groups 4,000 - The term "Surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly
1993
Number of Hosts 2 Million - 600 WWW sites - US White House and United Nations (UN) comes on-line
1994
Number of Hosts 3 Million - 10,000 WWW sites - 10,000 News groups - You can now order pizza from the Hut online in the US
1995
6.5 Million Hosts - 100,000 WWW Sites - Mobile code (JAVA, JAVAscript, ActiveX)
1996
12.8 Million Hosts - 0.5 Million WWW Sites - The WWW browser war begins, fought primarily between Netscape and Microsoft
1997
19.5 Million Hosts - 1 Million WWW sites - 71,618 Newsgroups