Researched1974 · Atomic & Space Age (1945 – 1990)

TCP/IP (How Networks Connect)

Cerf and Kahn's 1974 protocol design lets any network connect to any other; the ARPANET switches to it on 1 January 1983.

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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.

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Packet Switching1965
The Internet1969

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World Wide Web1991The web runs on TCP/IP connections
SSL/TLS Secure Connections1995TLS secures connections that run on top of TCP

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Wikipedia: Internet protocol suite

TCP/IP (How Networks Connect)

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