Perhaps one of the greatest inventions of our time is the Internet. Without a doubt, the net has had a profound effect on almost every aspect of our lives. The formation of the Internet has changed the way we do business, communicate, entertain, retrieve information, and even educate ourselves. Nevertheless, the Internet might not have ever materialized if it had not been for some innovative thinkers from the Advanced Research Projects Agency, who created "ARPANET." In collaboration with several educational and research institutions, the agency created the packet-switching technologies that form the basis of the Internet today.

The History and Development of the Internet: a Timeline, illustrates a chronology of notable events that led to the Internet’s creation and concludes with the thirtieth anniversary of the ARPANET experiment.

The basis of our design derives from Robert H Zakon’s Hobbes’ Internet Timeline v. 5.0, recognized by the pioneers of the Internet as the definitive timeline and history. Robert H Zakon’s site can be found at: http://www.isoc.org/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html.

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