ICANN Historical Timeline
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1972:- DARPA era - Birth of the Internet
ARPANET
NLS System at Stanford, 1968[1]
The "Mother of All Demos," 1968[2]
Concept drawing of ARPANET, 1969[3]
Interface Message Processor, 1969[4]
Queen Elizabeth II Sends an email, 1976[5]
The ARPANET was a product of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. MIT, the University of Southern California, UCLA, and the Stanford Research Institute, under contract with DARPA, were all instrumental in the development of technologies that are still used today in the modern Internet.[6]
1976 -
1983 -
1988 - IANA (legitimization era)
1992 - Internet goes commercial/ gains a public/ officially becomes marketplace
1994 - RFC 1591
1996 Internet Governance blueprint era: International Ad-Hoc Committee formed
1997 - MoU 1998 - green/white papers
1998 Birth of ICANN (scaffolding)
1999-2002: (infant) ICANN
Privatization Marilyn Cade DNSO exists PSO, ASO are reserved
2002 ICANN Reform (toddler)
2003 2004
2005-2006 (youth) fulfillment of Differentiation/Expansion of ICANN bodies
2007 - 2009 (youth) Infinite reviewing cycles begin
(IDNs?)