Characteristics

Technologies

• TCP – Transmission Control Protocol (1974)
• Viewdata (1974)
• UUCP (1976)
• MS-DOS (1981)
• IPv4 (1981)
• EGP – Exterior Gateway Protocol (1982)
• TCP/IP – Internet Protocol Suite (1982)
• ping (1983)
• DNS (1984)
• Windows 1 (1985)
• IP multicast (1986)
• IRC (1988)
• Python (1989)
• BGP (1989)

Concepts

• Ethernet (1973)
• Aaron (1973)
• MUD’s (1975)
• Usenet (1980)
• MIDI (1982)
• Minitel (1982)
• GNU (1983)
• GSM (1987)
• Formal domain registration (1989)

Usages

• computer virus (1971) (1)
• email (1972)
• Telenet (1974) : considered as the first Internet service provider (ISP)
• Bitnet (1981)
• NSFNET (1986)
• UUNET (1987)

Pioneers

• Paul Allen (1)
• Steve Ballmer (1)
• Paul Baran (1), (2), (3), (4), (Hall of Fame)
• Vannevar Bush (1), (2), (3)
• Nolan Bushnell (1)
• Vint Cerf (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (Hall of Fame)
• Harold Cohen (1)
• Ted Dabney (1)
• Douglas Engelbart (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
• Samuel Fedida (1)
• Bill Gates (1)
• Gordon Hall
• Van Jacobson (Hall of Fame), (1)
• Steve Jobs (1)
• Bob Kahn (1), (2), (3), (Hall of Fame)
• Daniel Karrenberg (Hall of Fame), (1)
• Peter T. Kirstein (1) (Hall of Fame)
• John Klensin (Hall of Fame), (1)
• Bob Metcalfe (1), (2), (3)
• David L. Mills (1)
• Tim O’Reilly (1),(2),(3)
• Jon Postel (1), (Hall of Fame)
• Larry Roberts (1), (2), (3), (4)
• Robert (Bob) W. Taylor (1), (2), (3)
• Raymond Tomlinson (Hall of Fame), (1)
• Jack Tramiel (1)
• Eric C. Rosen
• Guido van Rossum (1)
• Richard Stallman (1),(2)
• Bill von Meister (1)
• Steven Wozniak (1)

Corporations

• Free Software Foundation (1985)
• Atari (1972)
• Microsoft (1975)
• Apple (1976)
• Oracle (1977)
• O’Reilly Media (1978)
• Adobe (1982)
• SUN (1982)
• AOL (1983
• CISCO (1984)
• IETF (1986)
• IRTF (1986)
• IANA (1988)

ICT in Luxembourg

• Administration des Télégraphes (1861)
• SIMCO (1977)
• Telindus (1979)
• SES (1985)
• RESTENA (1989)