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INTERNET TIMELINE
compiled by Larissa
Bank
1964
The Rand Corporation, American's foremost Cold War think-tank presented to the
public the idea of networking computers to allow for communication after a nuclear
war. Hypothetically, information would be passed on computer to computer in packets,
blocks of information, which are sent and recompiled on the receiving machine.
1965
Ted Nelson coins the term "hypertext" at the annual conference of the Association
of Computing Machinery
Hypertext
Generally, any text that contains links to other documents-words or phrases in
the document that can be chosen by a reader and which cause another document to
be retrieved and displayed.
1969
ARPANET started as four networked nodes (computers) sponsored by the Pentagon
ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency within the Department of Defense
First computer at UCLA
1971
fifteen nodes on ARPNET