The Internet grew from ARPANET, a research network funded by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In late October 1969 a message was sent between computers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute, and the system crashed after the first two letters of the intended word login had been transmitted. Over the next years the network added more universities and research centres, and email appeared in 1971. The decisive step came when Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn developed the TCP/IP protocols, which ARPANET adopted on 1 January 1983 and which allowed separate networks to be linked into a single internet. Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web, created at CERN from 1989 and released in 1991, then made the network accessible to the general public.
Before and after
- 3 October 1969Construction of Fernsehturm Berlin
- 14 October 1969Swat District
- 16 October 1969Establishment of Doñana National Park
- 22 October 1969Discovery of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 29 October 1969The first message is sent over ARPANET
- 10 November 1969Premiere of Sesame Street
- 14 November 1969Launch of Apollo 12
- 1 December 1969Publication of Doraemon
More in Science & technology
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- 1950Discovery of californium
- 1952Discovery of einsteinium
- December 1952Discovery of fermium
- 1958Discovery of nobelium
- June 2002Discovery of oganesson
The era
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