Internet service provider

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Internet history timeline

Early research and development:

  • 1960–1962: J. C. R. Licklider networking ideas
  • 1960–1964: RAND networking concepts developed
  • 1962–1964: ARPA networking ideas
  • 1965 (1965): NPL network concepts conceived
  • 1966 (1966): Merit Network founded
  • 1967 (1967): ARPANET planning begins
  • 1967 (1967): Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
  • 1969 (1969): NPL followed by the ARPANET carry their first packets
  • 1970 (1970): Network Information Center (NIC)
  • 1971 (1971): Tymnet switched-circuit network
  • 1972 (1972): Merit Network's packet-switched network operational
  • 1972 (1972): Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) established
  • 1973 (1973): CYCLADES network demonstrated
  • 1973 (1973): PARC Universal Packet development begins
  • 1974 (1974): Transmission Control Program specification published
  • 1975 (1975): Telenet commercial packet-switched network
  • 1976 (1976): X.25 protocol approved and deployed on public data networks
  • 1978 (1978): Minitel introduced
  • 1979 (1979): Internet Activities Board (IAB)
  • 1980 (1980): USENET news using UUCP
  • 1980 (1980): Ethernet standard introduced
  • 1981 (1981): BITNET established

Merging the networks and creating the Internet:

  • 1981 (1981): Computer Science Network (CSNET)
  • 1982 (1982): TCP/IP protocol suite formalized
  • 1982 (1982): Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
  • 1983 (1983): Domain Name System (DNS)
  • 1983 (1983): MILNET split off from ARPANET
  • 1984 (1984): OSI Reference Model released
  • 1985 (1985): First .COM domain name registered
  • 1986 (1986): NSFNET with 56 kbit/s links
  • 1986 (1986): Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
  • 1987 (1987): UUNET founded
  • 1988 (1988): NSFNET upgraded to 1.5 Mbit/s (T1)
  • 1988 (1988): Morris worm
  • 1988 (1988): Complete Internet protocol suite
  • 1989 (1989): Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
  • 1989 (1989): PSINet founded, allows commercial traffic
  • 1989 (1989): Federal Internet Exchanges (FIX East|FIXes)
  • 1990 (1990): GOSIP (without TCP/IP)
  • 1990 (1990): ARPANET decommissioned
  • 1990 (1990): Advanced Network and Services (ANS)
  • 1990 (1990): UUNET/Alternet allows commercial traffic
  • 1990 (1990): Archie search engine
  • 1991 (1991): Wide area information server (WAIS)
  • 1991 (1991): Gopher
  • 1991 (1991): Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX)
  • 1991 (1991): ANS CO+RE allows commercial traffic
  • 1991 (1991): World Wide Web (WWW)
  • 1992 (1992): NSFNET upgraded to 45 Mbit/s (T3)
  • 1992 (1992): Internet Society (ISOC) established
  • 1993 (1993): Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
  • 1993 (1993): InterNIC established
  • 1993 (1993): AOL added USENET access
  • 1993 (1993): Mosaic web browser released
  • 1994 (1994): Full text web search engines
  • 1994 (1994): North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) established

Commercialization, privatization, broader access leads to the modern Internet:

  • 1995 (1995): New Internet architecture with commercial connected at NAPs
  • 1995 (1995): NSFNET decommissioned
  • 1995 (1995): GOSIP updated to allow TCP/IP
  • 1995 (1995): very high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS)
  • 1995 (1995): IPv6 proposed
  • 1996 (1996): AOL changes pricing model from hourly to monthly
  • 1998 (1998): Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
  • 1999 (1999): IEEE 802.11b wireless networking
  • 1999 (1999): Internet2/Abilene Network
  • 1999 (1999): vBNS+ allows broader access
  • 2000 (2000): Dot-com bubble bursts
  • 2001 (2001): New top-level domain names activated
  • 2001 (2001): Code Red I, Code Red II, and Nimda worms
  • 2003 (2003): UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) phase I

Examples of Internet services:

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides a myriad of services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privately owned.

Internet services typically provided by ISPs can include internet access, internet transit, domain name registration, web hosting, and colocation.

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