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  1. International connections to NSFNET, the emergence of architecture such as the Domain Name System, and the adoption of TCP/IP on existing networks in the United States and around the world marked the beginnings of the Internet. [4] [5] [6] Commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) emerged in 1989 in the United States and Australia. [7]

    • 1980. Landweber’s proposal has many enthusiastic reviewers. At an NSF-sponsored workshop, the idea is revised in a way that both wins approval and opens up a new epoch for NSF itself.
    • 1981. By the beginning of the year, more than 200 computers in dozens of institutions have been connected in CSNET. BITNET, another startup network, is based on protocols that include file transfer via e-mail rather than by the FTP procedure of the ARPA protocols.
    • 1982. Time magazine names ‘the computer’ its ‘Man of the Year.’ Cray Research announces plans to market the Cray X-MP system in place of the Cray-1. At the other end of the scale, the IBM PC ‘clones’ begin appearing.
    • 1983. In January, the ARPANET standardizes on the TCP/IP protocols adopted by the Department of Defense (DOD). The Defense Communications Agency decides to split the network into a public ‘ARPANET’ and a classified ‘MILNET, ‘ with only 45 hosts remaining on the ARPANET.
  2. In 1988, the spring of 1988, the first four states were inter-connected to begin tracking commercial driver licenses. Eventually all 50 states were tracking commercial driver licenses through their connection to the IBM Information Network.

  3. The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities. The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for ...

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  5. Jul 30, 2010 · The Internet got its start in the United States more than 50 years ago as a government weapon in the Cold War. Unlike technologies such as the light bulb or the telephone, the Internet has no ...

  6. Apr 8, 2022 · 1985: Symbolics.com, the website for Symbolics Computer Corp. in Massachusetts, becomes the first registered domain. 1986: The National Science Foundation’s NSFNET goes online to connected ...

  7. Nov 2, 2016 · This essay is the last of a four-part series, which commemorates the anniversary of the first ever message sent across the ARPANET, the progenitor of the Internet on October 29, 1969.

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