re over 200 servers, and WWW traffic comprised 1 percent of aggregate NSF backbone traffic. Very quietly, the juggernaut had begun. In May 1994, the first international WWW conference was held at CERN in Geneva, and from that point on they were organized routinely, always to packed houses and always with a disappointed cadre of over- subscribed would-be attendees left out in the cold. And, from that point on, the lines that clearly define "what happened when" begin to blur. NCSA's Mosaic product, developed largely by Marc Andreessen at the University of Illinois in Chicago, hit the mainstream and brought the WWW to the masses. Andreessen, together with Jim Clark, would go on to found Netscape Corporation shortly thereafter. The following timeline, included courtesy of PBS, shows the highlights of the Internet's colorful history (as well as a few other great unrelated moments). Internet Timeline (1960-1997) 1960 There is no Internet Still no Internet 1962 The RAND Corporation begins research into robust, distributed communication networks for military command and control. 1962-1969 The Internet is first conceived in the early 1960s. Under the leadership of the Department of Defense's (DOD's) Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), it grows from a paper architecture into a small network (ARPANET) intended to promote the sharing of supercomputers amongst researchers in the United States. 1963 The Beatles play for the Queen of England. 1964 Dr. Strangelove portrays a nuclear holocaust, which the new network must survive. 1965 The DOD's Advanced Research Projects Agency begins work on ARPANET. ARPA sponsors research a "cooperative network of time-sharing computers." 1966 The U.S. Surveyor probe lands safely on moon. Downloaded from Digital Engineering Library @ McGraw-Hill (www.digitalengineeringlibrary.com) Copyright © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use as given at the website. First Things First First Things First 1967 The first ARPANET papers are presented 