1960 - There is no Internet...
1961 - Still no Internet...
1962 - The RAND Corporation begins research into robust, distributed communication networks for military command and control.
1962
- 1969
The Internet is first conceived in the early '60s. Under the leadership
of the Department of Defence's Advanced Research Project Agency
(ARPA), it grows from a paper architecture into a small network
(ARPANET) intended to promote the sharing of super-computers amongst
researchers in the United States.
1963 - Beatles play for the Queen of England
1964 - 'Dr Strangelove' portrays nuclear holocaust which new network must survive
1965 - The DOD's Advanced Research Project Association begins work on 'ARPANET'
1965 - ARPA sponsors research into a "co-operative network of time-sharing computers."
1965 - The satellite "Early Bird" was launched on a geo stationary orbit and became the first commercial satellite to provide a constant link between Europe and America.
1966 - US Surveyor probe lands safely on moon
1967 - First ARPANET papers presented at Association for Computing Machinery Symposium
1967 - Delegates at a symposium for the Association for Computing Machinery in Gatlingberg, TN discuss the first plans for the ARPANET.
1968 - First generation of networking hardware and software designed
1969 - ARPANET connects first 4 universities in the United States. Researchers at four US campuses create the first hosts of the ARPANET, connecting Stanford Research Institute, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah.