Mid 1960 : Papers on “Packet Switching” emerge.
End 1969s: ARPA sponsors the development of a
packet-switching network, called the
ARPANET.
1974: The TCP/IP protocols and model are
being proposed by Cerf/Kahn.
1980: IPv4 is
introduced
1983: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP. At this time,
the ARPANET has 200 routers.
1984: NSF funds a TCP/IP based backbone
network. This backbone grows into the
NSFNET, which becomes the successor
of
the ARPANET.
1995: NSF stops funding of NSFNET. The
Internet is completely commercial.
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