1960s

• 1961
  
  • Leonard Kleinrock, MIT: "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" (July) First paper on packet-switching (PS) theory
• 1962
  
  • J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark, MIT: "On-Line Man Computer Communication" (August) Galactic Network concept encompassing distributed social interactions
• 1964
  
  • Paul Baran, RAND: "On Distributed Communications Networks"
  • Packet-switching networks; no single outage point
• 1965
  
  • ARPA sponsors study on "cooperative network of time-sharing computers"
  • TX-2 at MIT Lincoln Lab and AN/FSQ-32 at System Development Corporation (Santa Monica, CA) are directly linked (without packet switches) via a dedicated 1200bps phone line; Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) computer at ARPA later added to form "The Experimental Network"
• 1966
  
  • Lawrence G. Roberts, MIT: "Towards a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers" (October) First ARPANET plan
• 1967
  
  • ARPANET design discussions held by Larry Roberts at ARPA IPTO PI meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan (April)
  • ACM Symposium on Operating Principles in Gatlinburg, Tennessee (October)
  • First design paper on ARPANET published by Larry Roberts: "Multiple Computer Networks and Intercomputer Communication First meeting of the three independent packet network teams (RAND, NPL, ARPA)
  • National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Middlesex, England develops NPL Data Network under Donald Watts Davies who coins the term packet. The NPL network, an experiment in packet-switching, used 768kbps lines
• 1968
  
  • PS-network presented to the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
  • Request for proposals for ARPANET sent out in August; responses received in September
  • University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) awarded Network Measurement Center contract in October
  • Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN) awarded Packet Switch contract to build Interface Message Processors (IMPs)
  • US Senator Edward Kennedy sends a congratulatory telegram to BBN for its million-dollar ARPA contract to build the "Interfaith" Message Processor, and thanking them for their ecumenical efforts
  • Network Working Group (NWG), headed by Steve Crocker, loosely organized to develop host level protocols for communication over the ARPANET. (:vgc:)
  • Tymnet built as part of Tymshare service (:vgc:)
• 1969
  
  • ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networking
  • Nodes are stood up as BBN builds each IMP Honeywell DDP-516 mini computer with 12K of memory; AT&T provides 50kbps lines
    • Node 1: UCLA (30 August, hooked up 2 September) Function: Network Measurement Center System,OS: SDS SIGMA 7, SEX Diagram of the first host to IMP connection
    • Node 2: Stanford Research Institute (SRI) (1 October) Network Information Center (NIC) SDS940/Genie Doug Engelbart's project on "Augmentation of Human Intellect"
    • Node 3: University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) (1 November) Culler-Fried Interactive Mathematics IBM 360/75, OS/MVT
    • Node 4: University of Utah (December) Graphics DEC PDP-10, Tenex
  • Diagram of the 4-node ARPAnet
  • First Request for Comment (RFC): "Host Software" by Steve Crocker (7 April)
  • RFC 4: Network Timetable
  • First packets sent by Charley Kline at UCLA as he tried logging into SRI. The first attempt resulted in the system crashing as the letter G of LOGIN was entered. (October 29) [ Log entry ]
  • Univ of Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State Univ establish X.25-based Merit network for students, faculty, alumni

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