Researched
TCP/IP
Cerf and Kahn's 1974 protocol design lets any network connect to any other; the ARPANET switches to it on 1 January 1983.
Open in the interactive tree →TCP/IP separates reliable delivery from addressing and routing, so it works over cables, radio and satellites alike. That switch-over date is often treated as the birth of the modern internet.
Prerequisites
- Packet Switching1965
- The Internet1969
Unlocks
- World Wide Web1991The web runs on TCP/IP connections
- SSL/TLS secure connections1995TLS secures connections that run on top of TCP
Sources
More in Communication & Networks · Atomic & Space Age
- Information Theory1948
- Error-Correcting Codes1950
- Communications Satellites1962
- Packet Switching1965
- The Internet1969
- Optical Fiber1970
- ALOHAnet1971
- E-mail1971