We live in a period of time where some would go crazy without Internet but few of us really know about the history. One of the them that made all this possible is Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, who together made of their many of their own notable accomplishments and it was their partnership that drove the creation of the TCP/IP protocol as one of the core components of the Internet.
TCP/IP = Short for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, the suite of communications protocols used to connect hosts on the Internet.
The partnership can be traced back to when Cerf was a graduate student at UCLA and Kahn who was working on hardware for the ARPANET but it wasn't until 1973 that when Kahn working for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), rejoined his UCLA colleague to create the TCP/IP protocol.
2 major events that led Kahn to start developing the TCP/IP protocol.
1972
During the International Computer Communication Conference, Kahn was working at the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) within ARPA. Kahn demonstrated the ARPANET by connecting 20 different computers by described it as "the watershed event that made people suddenly realize that packet switching was a real technology."
1973
Kahn was working on a satellite network project that he got the inspiration to develop what eventually became the TCP protocol. Initially the TCP protocol was meant to be a replacement for the ARPANET's NCP protocol. All of his work on TCP/IP helped laid the groundwork for open-architecture networking, a concept that enables any computer and network to freely speak with one another despite the hardware or software they use on their particular system.
1976
Cerf joined Kahn at DARPA (the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) and stayed there until 1982. He realized that packet switching and the Internet had commercial applicability, so he joined MCI (Verizon Business), where he developed the MCI Mail service that was connected to the Internet.
Along with driving the commercialization of e-mail, Cerf was a key figure in forming and funding the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an organization that manages IPv4 and IPv6 address spaces and assigns address blocks to regional Internet registries such as the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN).
Early 1990’s
The two men synched up again to form the Internet Society (ISOC), an organization that aims to drive awareness around Internet-related standards, education and policy.
Since 2005, Cerf has served as Google's vice president and chief Internet evangelist and on the UN's Broadband Commission for Digital Development which has set a goal of expanding the availability of broadband services. Meanwhile Kahn serves as the Chairman, CEO and President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) that is set on providing funding for research and development for the National Information Infrastructure.
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But Vint Cerf made everyone aware that
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