60's-70's-kings

 1961 ** First paper on packet-switching (PS) theory First ARPANET plan First design paper on ARPANET published by Larry Roberts: "Multiple Computer Networks and Intercomputer Communication First meeting of the three independent packet network teams First publication of the original ARPANET Host-Host protocol: C.S. Carr, S. Crocker, V.G. Cerf, "HOST-HOST Communication Protocol in the ARPA Network," in AFIPS Proceedings of SJCC (:vgc:) First report on ARPANET at AFIPS: "Computer Network Development to Achieve Resource Sharing" (March)
 * 60's to 80's
 * 1966 **
 * 1967 **
 * 1970 **


 * 1972 **

Larry Roberts writes first email management program (RD) to list, selectively read, file, forward, and respond to messages (July) First international connections to the ARPANET: University College of London (England) via NORSAR (Norway) BBN opens Telenet, the first public packet data service (a commercial version of ARPANET) (:sk2:)
 * 1973 **
 * 1974 **

TCP split into TCP and IP (March) Possibly the first commercial spam message is sent on 1 May by a DEC marketer advertising an upcoming presentation of its new DECSYSTEM-20 computers RFC 748: TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option The first Freenet (Cleveland) comes on-line 16 July under the auspices of the Society for Public Access Computing (SoPAC). Later Freenet program management assumed by the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN) in 1989 (:sk2,rab:) The first in a series of congestion collapses begin occurring in October. (:jtl:) The great USENET name change; moderated newsgroups changed in 1987. BARRNET (Bay Area Regional Research Network) established using high speed links. Operational in 1987.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">1983 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">

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