Tom Van de Zande is an internet architect, UX consultant, information designer, and web developer based in the Netherlands. The document provides a brief history of media and technology, from early experiments with moving images in the 1830s to the development of radio in the 1890s-1900s and the Arpanet/Internet in the 1960s-1970s. It discusses the concepts of imitation, resistance, amazement, and authenticity over the evolution of new technologies.
18. Network Working Group
Vinton Cerf
Request for Comments: 675
Yogen Dalal
NIC: 2
Carl Sunshine
INWG: 72
December 1974
SPECIFICATION OF INTERNET TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM
December 1974 Version
1. INTRODUCTION
This document describes the functions to be performed by the
internetwork Transmission Control Program [TCP] and its interface to
programs or users that require its services. Several basic
assumptions are made about process to process communication and these
are listed here without further justification. The interested reader
is referred to [CEKA74, TOML74, BELS74, DALA74, SUNS74] for further
discussion.
The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of R.
Tomlinson (three way handshake and Initial Sequence Number
Selection), D. Belsnes, J. Burchfiel, M. Galland, R. Kahn, D. Lloyd,
W. Plummer, and J. Postel all of whose good ideas and counsel have
had a beneficial effect (we hope) on this protocol design. In the
early phases of the design work, R. Metcalfe, A. McKenzie, H.
Zimmerman, G. LeLann, and M. Elie were most helpful in explicating
rious issues to be resolved. Of course, we remain responsible
no doubt lurk in the
“Internet”
1974
26. 1844
“Thatwas a sight to have seen; but one I never
care to see again! How much longer shall
knowledge be allowed to go on increasing?”
27. 1920
“Thewireless music box has no imaginable
commercialvalue. Whowould pay for a
message sent to nobody in particular?”
28. 1876
"The Americans have need of the
telephone, butwe do not. We have
plenty of messenger boys."
Sir William Preece
chief engineer of the British Post Office
29. “Do I need a mobile phone?”
“As much asyou need a Porche 911 turbo.”
2011
30. “We’re promised instant catalog
shopping–just point and click for great
deals.
Storeswill become obselete.
So how come my local mall does more
business in an afternoon than the entire
Internet handles in a month?”
— Clifford Stoll
1995