Jan. 7, 1958 – President Eisenhower requested funds to start ARPA.
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Summer 1975 – The Defense Communications Agency (DCA) took over the management of ARPANET.
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· November 1983 – The rapid growth of the internet caused massive problems in bookkeeping. To deal with this problem a group including Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Craig Partrige published RFC 882 which created the domain name system (DNS) to make Internet navigation easier. With DNS, users can type host names such as “USC-ISIF” instead of “10.2.0.52.” Every Address would have information from specific to general.