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Internet History

Some years ago a group of researchers came up with a simple protocol for getting data from a computer on one network relayed to a computer on a different network.

That particular cooperative language of "inter-networking," called the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), spread like wildfire over the coming decades.

Today, every new computer uses the TCP/IP protocol out of the box.

The TCP/IP was originally specified by a body that came to be known as the Internet Engineering Task Force, in a series of documents called Request For Comments (the RFCs).

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