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Network Working Group R. Zakon Request for Comments: 2235 MITRE FYI: 32 November 1997 Category: Informational Hobbes’ Internet Timeline Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) Robert H. Zakon and The Internet Society (1997). All Rights Reserved. 1. Introduction This document presents a history of the Internet in timeline fashion, highlighting some of the key events and technologies which helped shape the Internet as we know it today. A growth summary of the Internet and some associated technologies is also included. 2. Hobbes’ Internet Timeline Excerpted from the author’s copyrighted work of the same name. The most current version of Hobbes’ Internet Timeline is available at /guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html 1950s 1957 USSR launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite. In response, US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military (:amk:) 1960s 1962 Paul Baran, RAND: On Distributed Communications Networks - Packet-switching (PS) networks; no single outage point Zakon Informational [Page 1] RFC 2235 Hobbes’ Internet Timeline November 1997 1965 ARPA sponsors study on cooperative network of time-sharing computers - TX-2 at MIT Lincoln Lab and Q-32 at System Development Corporation (Santa Monica, CA) are direc