U.S. Department of Defense implements ARPANET (advanced research projects agency network) to demonstrate how communications between computers could promote cooperative research among scientists.
1983
U.S. National Science Foundation incorporates ARPANET into its new INTERNET (interactive network).
1991
The CORE project, to create a prototype of an electronic library of ACS journals, is established cooperatively by ACS, CAS, Bellcore, OCLC, and Cornell University.
1992
First sites appear on the World Wide Web.
1995
CAS begins Internet coverage of chemical science resources that are only available in electronic form.
1996
ACS creates ChemCenter, a web service to access a wide variety of chemical information. Includes full text of 26 ACS journals.
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