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112 Part 1 Introduction

1957
1958 US responds with ARPA when USSR launches Sputnik
1959
1961 1961 First paper on packet network switching theory
1963
1965
1966 First ARPANET plan
1967
1969 1969 Node 1: UCLA (30 August, hooked up 2 September),
4 nodes by December
1971
1973 1973 First international connections: University College, London and
Royal Radar Establishment (Norway). First e-mail
1975
1976 Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom sends an e-mail
1977
1979

1981
1982 TCP/IP protocol standard adopted, first definition of Internet
1983
1984 Domain Name System (DNS) introduced
1985 1985 Symbolics.com becomes first registered dot-com
1987 1987 NFSNet backbone developed, upgraded to TI in 1988
1988 Early worm virus affects 6,000 of 60,000 nodes, IRC developed
1989 1989 Countries connected to NFSNet include: Argentina, Austria, Belgium,
Brazil, Chile, Greece, India, Ireland, Korea, Spain and Switzerland
1991 1991 World Wide Web released by CERN
1992 Surfing the Internet term coined
1993 1993 WWW proliferates at a 341,634% annual growth rate of service traffic
1994 First malls, virtual bank, online pizza and SPAM
1995 1995 Netscape floats and browser wars ensue
1997 1997 Web sites pass 1 million

1999 1999 Internet accessible by mobile phone
2001
2002 2 billion indexed web pages on > 20 million web sites
2003

2005
2006 Widespread use of blogs, RSS and podcasts

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
Hosts (millions)

Figure 3.4 Timeline of major developments in the use of the web