History of the internet

Sources i used:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_internet
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.shtml

1962-J.C.R licktenhelder-appointed head of DARPA a defense system run by the government. While working with this program J.C.R concluded that in order to make our country secure a interconnection system would have to be used.

1969-The Internet then known as ARPANET went live.

1972-The first e-mail by Ray Tomlinson of BBN.
The (ARPA) was renamed The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (or DARPA)
ARPANET was currently using the Network Control Protocol to transfer data. This allowed communications between hosts.

1974-Term "internet" was dubbed by two French engineers.

1976- Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe creates enternet, a way to communicate with other companies across the country.

1979- The creation of BITNET, by IBM, Because its Time Network introduced the "store and forward" network. It was used for emails.

1983- Internet activity board (IAB for short) was created.

1986-The internet engineering task force (IETF) created to serve as forum for DARPA working on ARPANET, US defense data network (DDN), and the Internet core gateway system.

1992- internet society created. This was a group of people that would discuss the internet. Internet upgraded to T3 which is much faster than T32.

1994- World wide web Aka WWW. was created. Also companies like pizza hut started to make it able for people to order pizza via internet website.

1995- Web hosting site for regular people cost $50 a year excluding .edu and .gov domains which are run by the goverment.