Cybermarketing, 2nd Edition

Appendix 1

What is the Internet – give me the background

1956	Sputnik launched by the USSR. The US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to gain competitive advantage in science and technology for the military.
1965	Ted Nelson coins the word hypertext.
1967	Andy Van Dam and others build Hypertext Editing System – the core of HTML which is the layout language used on the Internet.
1968	Doug Engelbart demonstrates NLS, a hypertext system.
1969	ARPANET group set up by the DoD for research ‘networking’. First ever Internode set up at UCLA. First manned moon landing.
1972	First International Conference on computer communications. ARPANET was demonstrated on 40 machines. E-mail was invented and demonstrated to work where ...