700 BC Homing pigeons carry messages in ancient Greece. 1610 Galileo Galilei discovers the moon's terrain and Jupiter's four largest moons. His view of the heavens as a place started a scientific revolution, and would forever change how we view the universe around us. 1819 Hans C. Oersted discovers that a wire carrying an electric currentdeflected a magnetic needle, a discovery that would eventually lead tothe creation of the telegraph. 1837 William F. Cooke and Charles Wheatstone install the first railwaytelegraph in England. 1844 May 24th Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrated a magnetic telegraph using his MorseCode to send the message 'What hath God wrought' from Baltimore toWashington. 1858 August The first transatlantic cable is installed between Ireland and Canada. Unfortunately the signal was so weak and indistinguishable from background noise that it took hours to send a few words. The owners tried to fix the situation by boosting the voltage from 600 to 2000 volts, melting the cable's insulation and leaving it dead in the water. Later cables installed in 1866 were successful and remained in use for almost 100 years. 1860 April 3rd The Pony Express opens for business, pledging to 'deliver the goods in 10 days or less'. Its first route carries mail between St. Joseph, Missouri and San Francisco, California. 1861 October The last Pony Express run is made as the telegraph takes over. 1863 Giovanni Caselli receives U.S. patent for a fax machine called the 'pantelegraph' based on Alexander Bain's 1840 idea of synchronized pendulums. Service between Paris and Lyons France begins between 1865-1870, ending with the Franco-Prussian War. 1876 March Alexander Graham Bell transmits the first message ever sent by telephone: 'Mr. Watson, come here, I want you' to his assistant, who was linked by wire and receiver to the sending device in Bell's office. 1877 The first commercial telephone is introduced and the first telephone line is installed between Charlie William's electrical shop on Court Street, Boston and his home about three miles away. 1897 Joseph John Thomson discovers electrons. 1904 John Ambrose Fleming patents the first practical electron tube known as the 'Fleming Valve', based on Thomas Edison's patented 'Edison Effect'. In 1906 Lee DeForest creates the more advanced three-element AUDION (what we now called a TRIODE.) 1915 AT&T researchers complete the first transcontinental call from New York to San Francisco and start experimentally transmitting voice across the country via radio. 1920 Karel Capek coins the term 'robot'. 1927 AT&T establishes commercial transatlantic telephone service to London using two-way radio. Calls cost $75 for five minutes. 1934 The Communications Act of 1934 is passed, it is the first effort to regulate the telephone industry at the federal level. 1939 The first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer is created by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University with a $7000 grant. 1945 July Vannevar Bush publishes As We May Think in The Atlantic Monthly. In it he proposes memex, a machine that could store vast amounts of information. Users would have the ability to create information trails which could be stored and used for future reference. 1947 John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain invent the transistor while at Bell Labs. They received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 for their work. 1956 October 29th The first hard disk drive is created at IBM by a team lead by Reynold B. Johnson. The '305 RAMAC' (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) held 5MB of data on fifty 24 inch disks at a cost of about $10,000 per MB. 1957 October 4th USSR launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite. In response, US would form the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DoD) to help the US lead in science. 1958 December 15th Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles H. Townes publish Infrared and Optical Masers describing what would later be known as the laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) while at Bell Labs. Earlier in the year they also apply for a patent which is granted in 1960, the same year Theodore Maiman builds the first working model while at the Hughes Aircraft Company . 1960 The first communication satellite, Echo, was launched. March Joseph Licklider publishes Man-Computer Symbiosis. 1961 July Leonard Kleinrock publishes the first paper on packet switching networks: 'Information Flow in Large Communication Nets' while at MIT. 1962 ATT places the first commercial communications satellite (Telstar I) in orbit. February Steve Russell finishes the first computer game 'Spacewar!' while at MIT, later that year he and Alan Kotok would create the first joysticks. Other people involved were Peter Samson, Wayne Wiitanen, Dan Edwards, Martin Graetz, Steve Piner, and Robert A Saunders. A Java version and PDP-1 emulator are available here with source code. August Joseph Licklider and Wesley Clark publish 'On-Line Man Computer Communication' discussing their 'Galactic Network' concept that would allow people to access data from any site connected through a vast network. October Joseph Licklider becomes the first head of the computer research program at DARPA. 1963 Doug Engelbart invents the mouse. 1964 Gordon Moore declares that computing power will double every 18 months, a prophecy that holds true today and is known as Moore's Law. Moore and Robert Noyce would later leave Fairchild semiconductor to start Intel in the summer of 1968. Digital Equipment Corporation releases its PDP-8 computer, the first mass-produced minicomputer. August RAND's Paul Baran publishes 'On Distributed Communications: Introduction to Distributed Communications Network' which outlines packet-switching networks. This paper did discuss nuclear war, and is probably the source of the false rumor that the Internet was built with the goal of withstanding a nuclear attack. 1965 Thomas Merrill and Lawrence Roberts set up the first WAN (Wide Area Network) between MIT's Lincoln Lab TX-2 and System Development Corporation's Q-32 in California. Later they would write 'Toward a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers' describing it. Ted Nelson coins the word 'hypertext'. 1966 Scientists used fiber optics to carry telephone signals for the first time. Donald Davies coins the term 'packets' and 'packet switching'. ARPA's Bob Taylor receives funding for a networking experiment that would tie together a number of Universities the agency was funding. With no formal requests and in under an hour Charles Herzfeld agrees to fund what three years later would become the ARPANET. 1967 Wesley Clark comes up with the idea of using dedicated hardware to perform network functions while at a meeting of ARPA principal investigators. The devices would eventually be called Interface Message Processors (IMP's). October Lawrence Roberts publishes the first design paper on ARPANET: 'Multiple Computer Networks and Intercomputer Communication' at ACM's Gatlinburg conference. 1968 The first WAN to use packet switching is tested at the National Research Laboratory (NRL) in Great Britain. The final standard for ASCII is published. (An earlier version that included only upper-case letters was released in 1961.) April Joseph Licklider and Robert Taylor publish The Computer as a Communications Device. August Larry Roberts of ARPA releases a Request for Quotation (RFQ) looking for bids to constructing a network of 4 IMPs, with possible growth to 19. Many large companies like ATT and IBM do not submit bits, saying that such a network was not possible. December A small consulting company called Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) located in Cambridge wins the ARPA IMP contract. The group, headed by Frank Heart, would have $1 million and less than a year to turn theory into a working system. 1969 'Sometime in March' Honeywell delivers the first IMP prototype (IMP 0) to BBN. The unit was a modified version of Honeywell's rugged 516 computer. Unfortunately it didn't work correctly, Ben Barker would spend several weeks rewiring it by hand into the correct configuration. April 7th Steve Crocker creates the first Request for Comment (RFC) document titled 'Host Software' ( RFC1). It outlined the interface between hosts and BNN's IMP devices, each site would be responsible for creating the host software that connected their computers to the ARPANET's IMPs. The name RFC was chosen to avoid sounding too self-righteous, Crocker hoped to create an environment in which everyone felt comfortable participating - a spirit which would help the network to thrive in the coming decades. July 20th Apollo 11 lands on the Moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the Moon. Buzz Aldrin becomes the second man. They spend 21.5 hours on the lunar surface, including 2.5 hours outside their lunar excursion module while millions watch from the earth. September 2nd 'The IMP Guys' from BNN finish installing the first ARPANET IMP node (IMP1) at UCLA, it is attached to the school's SDS Sigma-7 without a hitch. October 1st The ARPANET's second node is set up at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), connecting to their SDS 940. After a bit of tweaking the first connection was made from UCLA to the SRI machine over the 50Kbps circuit. November 1st IMP number three is installed at the University of California at Santa Barbara. December The fourth node is installed at the University of Utah. 1970 Norman Abrahamson of the University of Hawaii develops ALOHAnet with funding from ARPA. It carried data at a lowly 4.8Kbps, but would lay the groundwork for Ethernet several years later. March The fifth ARPANET node is installed at BBN's headquarters. December ARPANET hosts start using Network Control Protocol (NCP) created by the Network Working Group (NWG) headed by Steve Crocker. 1971 The ARPANET now has 15 sites (23 total hosts): UCLA, SRI, UCSB, U of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU(C), CWRU, CMU, NASA/Ames and averages about 700,000 packets per day. Project Gutenberg is started by Michael Hart. Its first text is the US Declaration of Independence. June 23rd RFC 172 is released establishing the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) 1972 March BBN's Ray Tomlinson creates the first software allowing email to be sent between computers, email quickly becomes the network's most popular application. April 3rd Jon Postel creates the 1st Telnet specification (RFC #318) entitled: 'Ad hoc Telnet Protocol'. October Bob Kahn organizes a demonstration of ARPANET between 40 machines at the International Conference on Computer Communications. The Inter-Networking Group (INWG) is created to develop standards for the ARPANET. Vinton Cerf is named the chairman. 1973 First international connections to the ARPANET: University College of London in England and the Royal Radar Establishment in Norway. ARPANET traffic grows to more than 3 million packets per day. March Vinton Cerf sketches his gateway architecture on back of envelope while sitting in a hotel lobby, building on Bob Kahn's ideas for an improved version of NCP. May 22nd Robert Metcalfe writes a 13 page description of what will become Ethernet as part of his Harvard PhD thesis. He and David Boggs would later create the first ethernet network (running at 2.944 Mbps) between computers named Michelson and Morley, scientists who proved ether didn't exist in the 19th century. Metcalfe would later start 3Com Corporation in June 1979. October 15th-17th Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie presented their first paper on UNIX at the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. 1974 May Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish 'A Protocol for Packet Network Internetworking', which established the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). This is also the first time the term Internet was used. 1975 Raphael Finkel first releases the Jargon File while at Stanford. July The ARPANET was transferred by DARPA to the Defense Communications Agency (now the Defense Information Systems Agency) as an operational network. November In RFC 706 - On the Junk Mail Problem Jon Postel notes that the design of most mail systems made it difficult to block junk mail 1976 UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) developed at AT&T Bell Labs. It is distributed with UNIX one year later. Leonard Kleinrock publishes the first book about ARPANET technologies: 'Queueing Systems Volume II - Computer Applications' which helped packet switching gain wide-spread acceptance. The CCITT (now the ITU) defines the X.25 protocol for public packet switched networks. 1977 July Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn and others demonstrate the first gateway system connecting packet radio and the ARPANET. 1978 The Aspen Movie Map is shown at MIT, it is the first hypermedia videodisc. Vint Cerf, Steve Crocker, and Danny Cohen create a plan to separate TCP's routing functions into a separate protocol called the Internet Protocol (IP), error handling and datagram functions would remain a part of TCP. The University of California at Berkeley releases Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) UNIX based on version 7 of ATT's UNIX. 1979 DARPA establishes the Internet Configuration Control Board (ICCB) to help the process of creating the gateways between hosts and the network. The first MUD is created by Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw at the University of Essex. USENET is created by Tom Truscott, Steve Bellovin, and Jim Ellis using UUCP between Duke and UNC. April 12th Kevin MacKenzie sends the first ever emoticon in a message to the MsgGroup. The first is -) meaning tongue-in-cheek. 1981 Ted Nelson conceptualizes 'Xanadu', a central, pay-per-document hypertext database encompassing all written information. BITNET is created by Ira Fuchs and Greydon Freeman. The "Because It's Time NETwork" Started as a cooperative network at the City University of New York, with the first outside connection being to Yale. Sendmail is written by Eric Allman while at UC Berkeley. September RFC #791 which defines Internetwork Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is released. IBM releases its IBM PC. Retailing for $4500, more than 65,000 are sold in the first 4 months. 1982 The number of hosts breaks 200. DCA and ARPA establishes theTransmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), as theprotocol suite for ARPANET. The cutover date is set for January 1st 1983. The Defense Data Network is created (soon to become the Milnet). June The first PC LAN is demonstrated at the National Computer Conference by Drew Major, Kyle Powell, and Dale Neibaur. Their software would eventually become Novell's Netware. October Eric Rosen finishes the External Gateway Protocol(RFC 827)specification. 1983 The number of hosts breaks 500. The Internet becomes reality when the ARPANET is split into Militaryand Civilian sections. Berkeley releases Unix 4.2BSD, including TCP/IP. Internet Activities Board (IAB) established, replacing the InternetConfiguration Control Board (ICCB). Dave Clark continues to act as thechairman and a number of task forces were created to handle specific technological issues including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). January 1st The entire ARPANET switches from NCP to IP. The transition is said tohave went smoothly, although buttons were distributed saying 'I survivedthe TCP/IP transition.' Dan Lynch of USC ISI handled much of the logisticsand went on to start Interop in 1988. November Paul Mockapetris of USC's Information Sciences Institute publishes RFCs 882 and 883 which outline the Domain Name Service. Paul's first implementation of a DNS server was called JEEVES. Kevin Dunlap and later Paul Vixie would soon write BIND, which is by far the most common implementation today. December Mike Muuss writes Ping while at the US Army Ballistics Research Laboratory. 1984 The number of Internet hosts breaks 1000. William Gibson coins the term 'cyberspace' in the novel 'Neuromancer'. The Modified Final Judgement provides consumers with more choices forlong distance services by 'breaking up' ATT. JANET is created to serve higher-education in Britian. Richard Stallman starts the GNU Project, and would later start the Free Software Foundation. 'Spring' FidoNet is developedby Tom Jennings, with the node #2 belonging to John Madill. 1985 April 1st Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link(WELL) is started by Larry Brilliant of Networking Technologies International and Stewart Brand of the Point Foundation, with Matthew McClure as director. Customers are charged $8 per month plus $2 per hour. 1986 The number of Internet hosts breaks 5000. BSD Unix 4.3 is released. NSF establishes 5 super-computing centers to provide high-computingpower for all (JVNC at Princeton, PSC at Pittsburgh, SDSC at UCSD, NCSAat UIUC, Theory Center at Cornell). The NSFnet is created to connectthe sites with a backbone speed of 56Kbps. Larry Wall creates the Practical Extraction And Reporting Language,Pearl. (it's name would soon be shortened to simplyPerl) The Cleveland Freenet comes on-line. January Mail Exchanger (MX) records are described by Craig Partridge in RFC974 joining mail records and DNS. February RFC 977 is released by Brian Kantor and Phil Lapsley. It describes Network News TransferProtocol (NNTP), which was created in an effort to make Usenet newsfaster and more efficient. August Dan Lynch organizes the first TCP/IP Implementor's Workshop (which would become Interop in a few years), and holds it in Monterey. 1987 The number of Internet hosts breaks 10,000. NSF signs an agreement to manage the NSFNET backbone withMerit Network, Inc. August Apple Computer introducesHyperCard, the first widely available personal hypermedia authoring system. Jeff Case, Mark Fedor, Martin Schoffstall, and James Davin show off their Simple Gateway Monitoring Protocol (SGMP). Amazingly a major Internet outage occurred during the presentation, showing just how badly the system was needed. Their protocol would later evolve into SNMP. August 1st The 1000th RFC 'Request for Comments Reference Guide' is published. December 9th The Christmas Virus finds its way onto BITNET, causing many mail servers to crash because of the overload. Eventually much of the network is shutdown for a time to stop its spread. 1988 Internet Relay Chat (IRC)is written by Jarkko Oikarinen. NSFNET backbone upgraded to T1 (1.544Mbps), it handles more than75 million packets a day. The first transatlantic fiber-optic cable linking North America andEurope is completed, it can handle 40,000 telephone calls simultaneously. Van Jacobson writes traceroute while at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs after a conversation with Steve Deering of Stanford University. Bernard Daines creates the first Ethernet switch to add Ethernet support to Northern Telecom carrier-class telephone switches. November 2nd The Internet Wormis released by Robert Morris Jr., affecting about 6,000 of the 60,000 hostson the Internet. CERT(Computer Emergency Response Team) is later formed by DARPA in response toconcerns raised by the Worm. 1989 The number of Internet hosts breaks 100,000. The IAB consolidates its growing list of task forces into two groups, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). The IETF (one of the original 10 Task Forces) was given near-term responsibility for developments and standards while the smaller IRTF focused on longer-range research. Steering, Working, and Research groups are all formed under the IETF and IRTF. The first gateways between private electronic mail carriers andthe Internet are established. Compuserve is connected through Ohio StateUniversity and MCI is connected through the Corporation for NationalResearch Initiative. The Cuckoo's Egg is written by Clifford Stoll. The book tellsthe real-life tale of a German cracker group who infiltrated numerousUS facilities, and how Cliff traced and caught him after finding a 75cent accounting error. March First Web Project proposalis distributed by CERN's Tim Berners-Lee. His proposal was for a 'hypertext system' to aid the sharing of information between teams of researchers in the High Energy Physics community. 1990 Archie is released by Peter Deutsch, Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan at McGill. The InternetToaster, developed by Simon Hackett and John Romkey makes appearancesat Interop. Patrick Naughton sends an angry resignation letter to the CEO of Sun Microsystems detailing the woeful state of the company's operating systems. The company commissions Naughton, Bill Joy, James Gosling, and three others to create a solution to the problem. They would create a simple object-oriented programming language named Oak, which would evolve into Java a few years later. March The ARPANET ceases to exist. July The Electronic Frontier Foundation(EFF) is founded by Mitch Kapor. November The first World-Wide Web software is created by Tim Berners-Lee. December Peter Scott introduces hytelnet. 1991 The number of Internet hosts breaks 600,000. NSF lifts restrictions on the commercial use of the NSFNET backbone. The NSFNET backbone is upgraded to T3 (44.736Mbps) as trafficpasses 1 trillion bytes and 10 billion packets per month. Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS)is invented by Brewster Kahle. Gopheris released by Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill from the University ofMinnesota. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is releasedby Philip Zimmerman. March Line mode browser (www) released to limited audience on priam vax,rs6000, and sun v4. June 12th CERN has a computer seminar on WWW. August 6th Line mode browser (www) is release on alt.hypertext. Later that monthit is released on comp.sys.next, comp.text.sgml, and comp.mail.multi-media. October The mailing lists www-interest (now www-announce) [email protected] are started. October 5th Linus Torvalds announces Linuxversion 0.02. 1992 The number of Internet hosts breaks 1 million. The Internet Hunt is started by Rick Gates. January The Internet Society (ISOC) ischartered. The Internet Activities Board name is changed to the InternetArchitecture Board as it starts operating as a part of the InternetSociety. January 12th The Line Mode Browser v1.1 (www) is made available by anonymous FTP. February 12th Line mode v 1.2 announced on alt.hypertext, comp.infosystems,comp.mail.multi-media, cern.sting, comp.archives.admin, and severalmailing lists. June The term 'Surfing the Net' is coined by Jean Armour Polly. The Internet Activities Board (IAB) meets and decides to build a new version of IP out of CLNP July The first IAB IPv6 draft is withdrawn during an IETF meeting. November 17th Veronica, a gopherspace search tool, is released by the University of Nevada. 1993 The number of Internet hosts breaks 2 million. ISO 10646 - Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set is released. The White House and United Nations come on-line. January WinSock 1.1 is released. WinSock standardized APIs used to createWindows-based TCP/IP applications. It was started by Geoff Arnold and Martin Hall during Interop in 1991. NCSAreleases the first version of Marc Andreessen's 'Mosaic for X'. There are about 50 HTTP servers. March WWW (Port 80 HTTP) traffic measures 0.1% of NSF backbone traffic. WWW presented at Online Publishing 93 in Pittsburgh. April International Workshop on Hypermedia and Hypertext Standards isheld in Amsterdam. May NSF awards Network Solutions the InterNICcontract worth $5.9 million a year until March 31, 1998 when the contractexpires. They begin registering domains at the rate of almost 400 per month. July 5th Peter Steiner's famous 'On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.' cartoon appears on page 61 of The New Yorker (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20) August The first World-Wide Web developers' conference is held in Cambridge,Massachusetts. September Mosaic is released for Macintosh and Windows. Web (http - tcp port 80) traffic takes 1% of NSF backbone bandwidth. October There are over 500 known HTTP servers. December Marc Andressen leaves the NCSA to work for a small software company.He soon forms a partnership with SGI founder Jim Clark that will becomeNetscape Communications Corp. FreeBSD 1.0 is released. 1994 The web grows at a 341,634% annual growth, Gopher grows at 997%. The NSFNET backbone is upgraded to ATM (155mbps) as traffic passes10 trillion bytes per month. The first cyberbank, 'First Virtual', opens. March Marc Andressen and Jim Clark form Mosaic Communications Corp. (nowNetscape Communications). April 12th Arizona lawyers Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel 'spam' 6000 usenet groups with postings advertising green card lottery services, many Internet users fight back. May 25th The first international WWW conference is held at CERN in Geneva. Itis heavily oversubscribed and known as the 'Woodstock of the Web'. July The number of Internet hosts breaks 3 million. The final specifications for IPv6 are released by IAB, they recommend 128 bit addresses, enough to number 1 quadrillion computers connected through 1 trillion networks. August The International WWW Conference Committee (IW3C2)is created by CERN and the NCSA. September 1st The Internet/ARPANET celebrates its 25th anniversary. October Network Solutions Inc. reports that it is registering domain names atthe rate of 2,000 per month. The second international WWW Conference is held in Chicago and iscalled 'Mosaic and the Web'. November VRML 1.0 Draft is released by Gavin Bell, Tony Parisi, and Mark Pesce. December National Science Foundation advisory committee recommends moving toa user-fee system for registering domain names as soon as possible. December 14th The first meeting of the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is held inCambridge. W3C had been created by Tim Berners-Lee and Al Vezza. December 16th CERN gets funding for the Large Hadron Collider and decides todiscontinue WWW development enorder to refocus on particle physics.CERN hands projects over to INRIA. 1995 January The number of Internet hosts breaks 4 million. March HTTP (web) packets pass FTP traffic to be largest volume Internetprotocol. The Apache web server project is started. April 30th The National Science Foundation stops funding the NSFNET backboneand establishes the Very high speed Backbone Network Service(vBNS) to serve the research community. May Sun Microsystems introduces its HotJava Web browser and theJava programming language,created five years earlier by Jim Gosling. Scientific Applications International Corp. (SAIC) of San Diegoacquires Network Solutions Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary. September 14th NSF and NSI announce that domain registration will no longer befree of charge effective immediately. According to the plan new registrantswill pay a $100 fee for a two-year registration; and thereafter willpay $50 per year. Organizations registered prior to September 14, 1995will be charged the $50 annual fee on the anniversary of their initialregistration. EDU domains are still paid for by the NSF. October 24th The Federal Networking Council (FNC) unanimously passes a resolution defining the term Internet. December RFC 1883 - 'Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification is released, detailing how IPv6 should work. 1996 The Telecommunications Reform Act is passed, opening local and longdistance markets to full competition. The act also included a provisioncalled the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which would be declaredunconstitutional because of its vague wording in 1997. In response to the CDA the EFF launches its famousBlue Ribbon Campaign. January The number of Internet hosts breaks 9 million. April MCI upgrades its backbone to 622Mbps. June 24th After repeated threats via email and snail mail Network Solutions drops 9272 domain names from its DNS tables for failure to pay their domain name fees. 1997 January The number of Internet hosts breaks 16 million. February The 2000th RFC titled 'Internet Official Protocol Standards' is released. May 1st The IAHC is dissolved. June 26th The Communications Decency Act (part of the 1996 TelecommunicationsReform Act) is declared unconstitutionalin the case of Reno vs ACLU. July 17th Human error at Network Solutions causes DNS tables for .net and .com to become corrupted leaving most domain names unreachable while clean databases are distributed. December 22nd The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) begins operation. 1998 January The US Commerce Department releases its 'Green Paper' proposal,intended to clarify how the domain name registration system should behandled in the future. January 22nd Netscape Communications Corporation announces plans to make the source code for Netscape Communicator client software available for free licensing on the Internet. June 29th The Gigabit Ethernet Alliance announces that the IEEE has ratified 802.3z as the Gigabit Ethernet standard. November 24th America Online, Inc. announces that it would acquire Netscape Communications Corporation in a stock transaction valued at $4.2 billion.
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