Communications · Recorded milestone
TCP/IP
Recorded year1974
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn design the protocols that let networks interconnect into an internet.
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- Integrated circuitRecorded · 1958requires
- ARPANETRecorded · 1969enables
Led to
- Internet Relay ChatRecorded · 1988enables
- Internet wormRecorded · 1988enables
- Network firewallRecorded · 1988enables
- Open-source LinuxRecorded · 1991requires
- Preprint serversRecorded · 1991requires
- World Wide WebRecorded · 1991enables
- Agent communication languagesRecorded · 1993enables
- DICOM medical imagesRecorded · 1993enables
- Massively multiplayer online gameRecorded · 1996requires
- Human genome sequencedRecorded · 2003requires
- Internet callingRecorded · 2003enables
- 4G LTERecorded · 2009requires
- BlockchainRecorded · 2009requires
- Wireless sensor networksRecorded · 2010requires
- Higgs boson foundRecorded · 2012requires
- Global ransomware attacksRecorded · 2017requires
- Quantum-secured internetRecorded · 2017requires
- LEO satellite internetRecorded · 2020requires
- Robot avatar sightseeingRecorded · 2020requires
- Holographic callsRecorded · 2021requires
- Cars that power the gridRecorded · 2024requires
- Holographic home officesRecorded · 2024requires
- Air sensed molecule by moleculeForecast · ~2030requires
- Interplanetary internetForecast · ~2035requires
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.