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Date: August 17, 2003
From: Bob

1844 - May 24th - Telegraph invented by Samuel Morse.
1845 - English patent for telegraph by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1846 - Royal House invented a printing telegraph-required two operators at each end.
1851 - Western Union Company was formed by the merger of 12 telegraph companies
1855 - David Edward Hughes - Received patent for type printing telegraph.
1861 - Phillip Reis invents device for transmitting musical tones called a 'Telephone'.
1874 - Jean-Maurice-Emile Baudot patented the Baudot telegraph code.
1876 - February 14th - Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent for the Telephone.
1876 - February 14th - A few hours after Bell, Elisha Gray filed a patent for the Telephone.
1878 - David Edware Hughes invented carbon microphone.
1889 - Almon Brown Strowger invented the 'Dial Telephone' and 'Strowger Switch'.
1948 - Bell Labs invented the transistor.
1957 - ARPA is formed by the US DoD.
1964 - Paul Baran of RAND develops idea of distributed packet-switching networks.
1966 - ASCII code was created.
1969 - RS232 serial standard was established.
1969 - ARPANET goes online.
1969 - RFC 1
1970 - ALOHAnet developed by Norm Abrahmson.
1972 - Telnet specification.
1973 - File Transfer Protocol specification.
1973 - Network Voice Protocol - RFC 741.
1973 - Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn develop the idea of the Internet.
1973 - Bob Metcalfe's Harvard PhD thesis outlines the ideas for Ethernet.
1974 - "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" (TCP/IP) - V. Cerf/B. Kahn
1974 - First public packet-switched network - Telnet.
1976 - Paper on Ethernet published by Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs at PARC.
1976 - UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) developed at Bell Labs.
1977 - Mail specification (RFC 733)
1979 - DEC and Intel team with with Xerox (DIX) to develop Ethernet.
1979 - USENET established using UUCP (Duke to UNC)
1980 - DEC, Intel and Xerox publish the 'Ethernet Blue Book' or DIX standard.
1981 - BITNET and CSNET go online.
1982 - TCP/IP is established as the standard protocol for ARPANET (DoD).
1983 - IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard (10Base5)
1983 - Name Server developed at University of Wisconsin
1983 - CSNET-ARPANET gateway installed. MILNET split off from ARPANET
1983 - Berkeley releases BSD 4.2 with TCP/IP incorporated.
1984 - DNS introduced
1984 - IBM introduces 4Mbps Token Ring.
1985 - Symbolics.com is the first registered domain name.
1985 - IEEE 802.3a Thin Ethernet standard, 10Base2.
1985 - IEEE 802.3b Ethernet standard 10Broad36, 10Mbps using broad band.
1986 - NFSNET created.
1986 - NNTP introduced.
1986 - IETF and IRTF come into existence under IAB.
1987 - UUNET founded to provide UUCP and Usenet access.
1987 - IEEE 802.3d Fibre Optic Inter-Repeater Link (FOIRL)
1987 - IEEE 802.3e 1Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair.
1988 - Morris Internet worm takes down large number of Internet hosts.
1988 - CERT formed in response to Morris worm.
1988 - GOSIP published by DoD. DoD adopts OSI model, but uses TCP/IP.
1988 - IRC (Internet Relay Chat) developed by Jarkko Oikarinen.
1988 - FIDONet is connected to the Internet.
1990 - IEEE 802.3i Ethernet standard, 10BaseT.
1990 - ARPANET becomes extinct.
1990 - EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) - Mitch Kapor and Stewart Brand.
1990 - Archie
1990 - "The World" is the first commercial provider of Internet dial-up access.
1991 - Gopher
1991 - WWW released by CERN (Tim Berners-Lee)
1991 - PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) released by Philip Zimmerman.
1991 - July - EIA/TIA 568 standard for telecommunications wiring in commercial buildings.
1991 - August - EIA/TIA TSB 36 for higher grade cables (Cat 4 and Cat 5).
1992 - August - EIA/TIA TSB 40 for higher grade connecting hardware.
1992 - ISOC (The Internet Society)is chartered.
1993 - IEEE 802.3j Ethernet standard 10BaseFL, Ethernet fibre links up to 2km.
1993 - Veronica (a gopherspace search tool)
1993 - InterNIC created by NSF to Internet Services
1993 - AT&T designated to provide directory and database services by InterNIC
1993 - General Atomics/CERFnet designated to provide information services by InterNIC
1993 - Network Solutions designated to provide registration services by InterNIC
1993 - Mosaic web browser
1994 - January - EIA/TIA TSB 40A - included patch cords and testing in more detail.
1994 - January - EIA/TIA 568 revised to EIA/TIA 568A
- includes TSB 36, TSB 40A & other amendments.
1995 - IEEE 802.3u Fast Ethernet standards 100BaseTX (2 pair Cat 5)
1995 - IEEE 802.3u Fast Ethernet standards 100BaseT4 (4 pair Cat 3)
1995 - IEEE 802.3u Fast Ethernet standards 100BaseFX
1995 - The WWW, with the most traffic, becomes the most used service of the Internet.
1995 - Registration of Domain Names is no longer free.
1997 - IEEE 802.3x Full duplex Ethernet standard.
1997 - IEEE 802.3y 100BaseT2 Fast Ethernet standard (2 pair Cat 3)
1997 - ARIN established to handle IP address numbers by InterNIC.
1998 - IEEE 802.3z 1 Gbps 1000Base-X standards)
1998 - IEEE 802.3ac VLANs
1999 - IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base-T (1 Gbps over 4 pair Cat-5)
1999 - EIA/TIA 570-A Residential Telecommunications Cabling Standard
2000 - Formation of IEEE 802.3ae working group for 10 Gbps Ethernet
2001 - May - New 568B Standard - ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1, 2 & 3
2002 - June - TIA ratifies Category 6 (Article)
2002 - August - TIA publishes Category 6 Standards and Systems Overview

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