The History of the Internet

Backbone:50Kbps ARPANET, Hosts:78*
In 1974, the term Internet was first used by Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn in a paper on Transmission Control Protocol. Commercial interests hit in 1974 when BBN developed a commercial version of ARPANET called Telenet. It was the first commercially available packet-switching network and was widely used by early online services like Compuserve and GEnie. Becuase of Cerf's contributions, he is considered by many as the Father of the Internet.


* Total host during this year is an estimate