RFC 2235 (rfc2235) - Page 2 of 22
Hobbes' Internet Timeline
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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 directly linked (without packet switches) 1967 ACM Symposium on Operating Principles - Plan presented for a packet-switching network - First design paper on ARPANET published by Lawrence G. Roberts National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Middlesex, England develops NPL Data Network under D. W. Davies 1968 PS-network presented to the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) 1969 ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networking - First node at UCLA, Network Measurements Center [SDS SIGMA 7, SEX] and soon after at: - Stanford Research Institute (SRI), NIC [SDS940/Genie] - UCSB, Culler-Fried Interactive Mathematics [IBM 360/75, OS/MVT] - Univ of Utah, Graphics [DEC PDP-10, Tenex] - use of Information Message Processors (IMP) [Honeywell 516 mini computer with 12K of memory developed by Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN) First Request for Comment (RFC): "Host Software" by Steve Crocker Univ of Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State Univ establish X.25-based Merit network for students, faculty, alumni (:sw1:) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1970s Store-and-forward networks - Used electronic mail technology and extended it to conferencing Zakon Informational
