1968 ::: ARPANET
ARPA awarded the ARPANET contract
to BBN.
1972 ::: E-Mail
The first e-mail program was
created by Ray Tomlinson of BBN.
1973 ::: Internet Term
First Use of term Internet by
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in paper on
Transmission Control Protocol.
1992 ::: WWW
World-Wide Web released by
CERN.
1992 ::: Browser
Marc Andreessen and NCSA and
the University of Illinois develops
a graphical user interface to the
WWW, called "Mosaic for X".
1996 TO DATE
Most Internet traffic is
carried by backbones of independent
ISPs, including MCI, AT&T, Sprint,
UUnet, BBN planet, ANS, and more.