I somehow miss the distribution of pr0n as the motor in the uptake of the internet. Increased supply and easy accessibility to adults and adolescents made the internet a must have educational and entertainment tool just as it did with the video recorder and dvd.

I agree with Deek...twitter is not a milestone, neither is facebook, sounds like there's a LOT missing from this timeline, I mean cmon...not a single mention of Quake! Where's newsgroups? it's completely missing all modern variations of broadband.

Worst timeline ever!

So in 1971 they had a LAN. Nice. By 1971 GE had several years experience with trans-Atlantic networking. And with email systems too. Trans-Pacific came in 1973.

You realize that Al Gore invented the Internet, right? You Brits are always trying to take away our ideals, like when your scientists destroyed our global cooling theories of the 70's by altering some data.....:-)

This self-serving (to Brits) article repeats several of the usual fallacies, from the chestnut about "deep in a bunker" (which is indeed bunk, or bunkum) to fanciful tales of packet-switching.

I had access to one of the first nodes of the ARPANET, in 1973, at UC Santa Barbara, and some of my friends were hip-deep in the IMLAC and 360/75 support machines. We used an early version of graphics terminals, designed by Culler-Fried.

The earliest ideas of a computer network intended to allow general communication between users of various computers were formulated by J.C.R. Licklider of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) in August 1962, in a series of memos discussing his "Intergalactic Computer Network" concept. These ideas contained almost everything that the Internet is today.

In October 1963, Licklider was appointed head of the Behavioral Sciences and Command and Control programs at ARPA (as it was then called), the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He then convinced Ivan Sutherland and Bob Taylor that this was a very important concept, although he left ARPANET before any actual work on his vision was performed.

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I thought internet was born with point-to-point pigeons.

Equating the Internet with the Web is sophomoric.

You're really calling Twitter a milestone?

You must be joking. Wait until it grows up from being just a flash in the pan.