This content was published by Andrew Tomazos and written by several hundred members of the former Internet Knowledge Base project.
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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