Happy 25th Birthday TCP/IP
I didn’t know this until today, but ARPANET adopted TCP/IP as the official communication protocol between computers on January 1st, 1983. I found this break down of the two protocols which form TCP/IP. The IP protocol and the TCP protocol is explained below: IP IP ensures that packets are routed to the right place. You can think of a packet as a package of information, and on this package IP holds information about the address and sender (note: your IP address, a number that identifies your computer online is contained in the IP portion of the packet). ...