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INTERMET CORP history
INTERMET CORP company history timeline
Intermet's lineage winds its way through a tangle of subsidiaries and predecessor companies to one of the oldest chartered companies in the United States, Columbus Iron Works, established in 1846.
1957 USSR launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite.
1961 Leonard Kleinrock, MIT: "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" (May 31) First paper on packet-switching (PS) theory
1965 ARPA sponsors study on "cooperative network of time-sharing computers"
1968 PS-network presented to the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
1969 Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN) awarded Packet Switch contract to build Interface Message Processors (IMPs) in January
1970 First publication of the original ARPANET Host-Host protocol: C.S. Carr, S. Crocker, V.G. Cerf, "HOST-HOST Communication Protocol in the ARPA Network," in AFIPS Proceedings of SJCC (:vgc:)
Intermet's modern-day origins begin in 1971, when Columbus Foundries Inc. was founded, incorporating the link to the past, the 19th-century Columbus Iron Works.
1972 Ray Tomlinson (BBN) modifies email program for ARPANET where it becomes a quick hit.
1973 First international connections to the ARPANET: University College of London (England) via NORSAR (Norway)
1976 Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom sends out an email on 26 March from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) in Malvern
1977 THEORYNET created by Larry Landweber at Univ of Wisconsin providing electronic mail to over 100 researchers in computer science (using a locally developed email system over TELENET)
1978 TCP split into TCP and IP (March) Possibly the first commercial spam message is sent on 1 May by a DEC marketer advertising an upcoming presentation of its new DECSYSTEM-20 computers
1979 Meeting between Univ of Wisconsin, DARPA, National Science Foundation (NSF), and computer scientists from many universities to establish a Computer Science Department research computer network (organized by Larry Landweber).
1980 ARPANET grinds to a complete halt on 27 October because of an accidentally-propagated status-message virus
1983 Name server developed at Univ of Wisconsin, no longer requiring users to know the exact path to other systems
1984: Intermet is formed.
In 1985, a year after its formation, Intermet's stock began trading on the public market, touching off an energetic acquisition spree.
In 1986, the company purchased Northern Casting Company, based in Hibbing, Minnesota, and New River Castings Company, based in Radford, Virginia.
First TCP/IP Interoperability Conference (March), name changed in 1988 to INTEROP
The first Freenet (Cleveland) comes on-line 16 July under the auspices of the Society for Public Access Computing (SoPAC). Later Freenet program management assumed by the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN) in 1989 (:sk2,rab:)
1989 Number of hosts breaks 100,000 RIPE (Reseaux IP Europeens) formed (by European service providers) to ensure the necessary administrative and technical coordination to allow the operation of the pan-European IP Network. (:glg:)
The term "surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly (:jap:); Brendan Kehoe uses the term "net-surfing" as early as 6 June 1991 in a USENET post (:bt1:)
In 1991, the industry sold 12.3 million cars and light trucks, 11 percent less than it had sold the previous year.
1991 First connection takes place between Brazil, by Fapesp, and the Internet at 9600 baud.
In 1992, the company formed a new division, Intermet Aluminum Inc., to produce cast aluminum chassis parts and signed a joint venture agreement with Australia-based Comalco Ltd.
US White House email comes on-line at whitehouse.gov; web site launches in 1994 President Bill Clinton: president@whitehouse.gov Vice-President Al Gore: vice-president@whitehouse.gov
In 1995, the company achieved its goal.
In late 1995, Intermet added to its massive iron castings business by acquiring the Bodine-Robinson Aluminum Foundry, marking the company's formal entry into aluminum castings production.
1995 NSFNET reverts back to a research network.
1996: Sudbury, Inc. is acquired, substantially increasing production capacity of iron castings and lifting sales by $300 million.
In May 1998, the company entered a joint venture for PortCast, a foundry company located in Portugal.
The acquisition, announced in November 1999, included two companies, Ganton Technologies, Inc. and Diversified Diemakers, Inc., which, combined, were expected to generate $235 million in sales in 1999.
Although the company announced the closure of its Ironton Iron foundry in December 1999 because of declining business, Intermet management scotched rumors that it was pursing a long-term strategy that excluded the company's involvement in ferrous castings.
With the addition of the two companies, Intermet's annual revenues were expected to reach $1.3 billion by the end of 2000, four times the total generated eight years earlier.
Australian government endorses the transfer of authority for the .au domain to auDA (18 Dec). ICANN signs over control to auDA on 26 Oct 2001.
2002 US ISP Association (USISPA) is created from the former CIX (11 Jan)
2004 For the first time, there are more instances of DNS root servers outside the US with the launch of an anycast instance of the RIPE NCC operated K-root server
2006 .cat registrations begin for Catalan-related domains
2007 ICANN drops .um domain name (US minor outlying islands) for lack of use (Jan)
Domain tasting gets severely curtailed after ICANN raises the 2008-introduced fee for erroneously registered domains from $0.20 to $6.95; domain kiting however conitnues
ICANN introduces 1000th gTLD from 2012 application window (25 May)
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