Contents- 1 Precursors
- 2 Three terminals and an ARPA
- 3 Packet switching
- 4 Networks that led to the Internet
- 4.1 ARPANET
- 4.2 NPL
- 4.3 Merit Network
- 4.4 CYCLADES
- 4.5 X.25 and public data networks
- 4.6 UUCP and Usenet
- 5 Merging the networks and creating the
Internet (1973–90)
- 5.1 TCP/IP
- 5.2 ARPANET to the federal wide area
networks: MILNET, NSI, ESNet, CSNET, and NSFNET
- 5.3 Transition towards the Internet
- 6 TCP/IP goes global (1989–2010)
- 6.1 CERN, the European Internet, the link
to the Pacific and beyond
- 6.2 Global digital divide
- 6.3 Opening the network to commerce
- 6.4 Growth of private infrastructure
- 7 Networking in outer space
- 8 Internet governance
- 8.1 NIC, InterNIC, IANA and ICANN
- 8.2 Internet Engineering Task Force
- 8.3 The Internet Society
- 8.4 Globalization and Internet governance
in the 21st century
- 9 Use and culture
- 9.1 Email and Usenet
- 9.2 From Gopher to the WWW
- 9.3 Search engines
- 9.4 File sharing
- 9.5 Dot-com bubble
- 9.6 Mobile phones and the Internet
- 10 Online population forecast
- 11 Historiography
- 12 See also
- 13 Notes
- 14 References
