ICANN Historical Timeline
1972:- DARPA era - birth of the Internet edit
ARPANET
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Concept drawing of ARPANET, 1969 (darpa.mil)
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Interface Message Processor, 1969 (darpa.mil)
1976 - edit
1983 - edit
1988 - IANA (legitimization era) edit
1992 - Internet goes commercial/ gains a public/ officially becomes marketplace edit
1994 - RFC 1591 edit
1996 Internet Governance blueprint era: International Ad-Hoc Committee formed edit
1997 - MoU 1998 - green/white papers
1998 Birth of ICANN (scaffolding) edit
1999-2002: (infant) ICANN edit
Privatization Marilyn Cade DNSO exists PSO, ASO are reserved
2002 ICANN Reform (toddler) edit
2003 2004
2005-2006 (youth) fulfillment of Differentiation/Expansion of ICANN bodies edit
2007 - 2009 (youth) Infinite reviewing cycles begin edit
(IDNs?)