It is also possible to use the domain system to store information about users, mailing lists, or other objects. Remote terminal connections use another mechanism still. When it is necessary to send a command (e.g. to set the terminal type or to change some mode), a special character is used to indicate that the next character is a command. If the user happens to type that special character as data, two of them are sent. This thesis analyses the evolution of British computer networks and the Internet between the years 1970 and 1995.

TCP (the “transmission control protocol”) is responsible for breaking up the message into datagrams, reassembling them at the other end, resending anything that gets lost, and putting things back in the right order. IP (the “internet protocol”) is responsible for routing individual datagrams. However in the Internet, simply getting a datagram to its destination can be a … Read More

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