I can't remeber it first hand (I was bon '78) but:
Research funded by ARPA (Advanced Research Project Agency) which I believe
was a part of the US govt?
then a whole heap of other organisation (the NSF, DOE, DOD, Nasa and HHS)
participated in funding the first internet, using TCP/IP to connect
between most research centres, called ARPA/NSF Internet.
text books are great :)
Douglas E. Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP, vol 1, 3rd ed.
that's vastly sumarised by the way...
chris
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Michael George wrote:
> On Jun 07, Robert Canary wrote:
> >
> > And MS did not develop the TCP/IP contrary to popular belief. IBM did.
>
> I don't think this is the case, but I could be mis-remembering. I think it
> was Vint Cerf and other academics that designed the protocol. And I think
> they were working under a government grant.
>
> Anyone else remember history on this better than I? I don't want to have to
> dig out my old Internetworking textbooks...
>
> -Michael
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