AHAA...INTERNET HISTORY?

This Internet Timeline begins in 1962, before the word ‘Internet’ is invented. The world’s 10,000 computers are primitiv. They have only a few thousand words of magnetic core memory, and programming them is far from easy.

Domestically, data communicatione over the phone lines is an AT&T monopoly. The ‘Picturephone’ of 1939, shown again at the New York World’s Fair in 1964.

But the four-year old Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defensee, a future-oriented funder of ‘high-risk, high-gain’ reserch, lays the groundwork for what becomes the ARPANET and, much later, the Internet.

By 1992, when this timeline ends,

• the Internet has one million hosts
  
• the ARPANET has ceased to exist
  
• computers are nine orders of magnitude faster
  
• network bandwidth is twenty million times greater.