Net Neutrality: A Historical Timeline

On February 3, 2003, law professor Tim Wu presented a paper on "Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination," at the Silicon Flatirons conference in Boulder, Colo. Wu's paper is believed to be the first use of the term. This timeline follows along the net neutrality debate from the release of that paper through the Comcast appeal of a Federal Communications Commission decision that the cable company violated net neutrality principles.