1. tel e com mu ni ca tions –noun 1.Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb ) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television. 2.Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb ) the science and technology of such communication. 3.telecommunication, a message so transmitted. –adjective 4.of or pertaining to telecommunications. From dictionary.com

2. From Claude E. Shannon, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1949

3. See communication speed over time

5. http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/teach/slides/hcl0502.htm Memex, Vannever Bush, 1945

6. Leonard Kleinrock, MIT: "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets, 1961Information Flow in Large Communication Nets

7. On Distributed Communication Networks, Paul Baran, 1964

9. http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//atlas/historical.html

10. http://www.darpa.mil/news_images/tigr2.html

12. Log entry for first message sent via the ARPANET October 29, 1969

13. A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication, Vinto G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn 1974 http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos561/papers/cerf74.pdf

14. http://www.teach-ict.com/technology_explained/packet_switching/packet_switching.html

15. http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/literature.htm Transfer Control Protocol breaks down and reassembles the packets

16. Internet Protocol ensures packets are sent to the right destination

18. ARPANET Completion Report, 1978 http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//atlas/historical.html

19. http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//atlas/historical.html

20. http://opte.org/http://opte.org/ 2003

21. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tim_Berners-Lee_April_2009.jpg http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html I just had to take the the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and the domain name system ideas and – tada! The World Wide Web. (May, 2008)

22. http://www.xanadu.com/ Ted Nelson, 1960

23. http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

24. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_browser Mosaic Browser, National Center For Supercomputing Applications, 1993