Internet History and

Timeline
Credit for the initial concept that
developed into the World Wide Web is
typically given to Leonard Kleinrock. In
1961, he wrote about ARPANET, the
predecessor of the Internet, in a paper
entitled Information Flow in Large
Communication Nets. Kleinrock, along
with other innovators such as J.C.R.
Licklider, the first director of the
Information Processing Technology Office
(IPTO), provided the backbone for the
ubiquitous stream of emails, media,
Facebook postings and tweets that are
now shared online every day. Here, then, is
a brief history of the Internet:
 ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research
into networking. The Team included

Bob Taylor, a psychoacoustician, was director

of the computer research program at the
Department of Defense's Advanced Research
Projects Agency in 1966 when he hit upon the
idea of lining computers together
 The precursor to the Internet was
jumpstarted in the early days
of computing history, in 1969 with the
U.S. Defense Department's Advanced
Research Projects Agency Network
(ARPANET). ARPA-funded researchers
developed many of the protocols used
for Internet communication today. This
timeline offers a brief history of the
Internets evolution:
The precursor to the Internet was jumpstarted
in the early days of computing history, in 1969
with the U.S. Defense Department's Advanced
Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET).
ARPA-funded researchers developed many of
the protocols used for Internet communication
today. This timeline offers a brief history of the
Internets evolution:
 Radiated Library

1934: Belgian information expert

named Paul Otlet imagined a
Radiated Library that would use
technology of the day the
telephone and radio to create
something very much like the
Internet.
1965: Two computers at MIT Lincoln
Lab communicate with one another
using packet-switching technology.