TCP/IP

Q: Describe a milestone in the History of ICT. Include a date of the milestone, describe the milestone, and why it was important. Include at least on reference.

disruptive technologies we often focus on the implementation of them and the impact they have on social structures. Our previous discussion was in part about this. How do these new technologies change the way we communicate? Without TCP/IP, possibly a previous incarnation of NCP, or a hacked together attempt at a routed UDP, we would have had to come up with an open protocol in order to do that. The TCP/IP protocols won the day.

It is true that the Internet is the primary reason TCP/IP is what it is today. Without Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP) we could not talk to each other in the ways that we do. However, before there was the World Wide Web there was ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Networks) and "ARPAnet created the TCP/IP communications standard, which defines data transfer on the Internet today." (SOURCE)

Furthermore, "(w)hat many people don't realize is that in early versions of this technology, there was only one core protocol: TCP. And in fact, these letters didn't even stand for what they do today; they were for the Transmission Control Program. The first version of this predecessor of modern TCP was written in 1973, then revised and formally documented in RFC 675, Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program, December 1974." (SOURCE)

I concede, that a dialog about TCP/IP can be a big bore, but when you couple in P2P with TCP/IP you get Skype, iChat, and a host of technologies yet to be seen. So I conclude TCP/IP is a silent warrior in the business if information communications technology and deserves an honorable mention.