The rules of information exchange
IDEA No 15
INTERNET PROTOCOL SUITE
In the early ’70s, following the launch of ARPANET, several more packet-switching networks emerged. Robert Kahn had the idea of joining them up. To do this, they would need a common set of rules.
Researchers from the Stanford Research Institute monitor the first Internet transmission, taking place in the garden of the Alpine Inn.
One of these networks was a packet radio system that operated out of a converted bread van provided by Stanford Research Institute (SRI). A regular stop was the Alpine Inn. Known locally as Zott’s, it was described in 1909 by the president of SRI as ...
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