When the internet was cobbled together, it was just a small research project. Now it is critical to society and its structure is no longer fit for purpose, says James Ball
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26 August 2020
By James Ball
Michelle D’Urbano
IN JANUARY 1989, two engineers – Cisco’s Kirk Lougheed and IBM’s Yakov Rekhter – sat down in the cafeteria at a technology conference in Austin, Texas.
The two men were looking to work out a short-term fix to help address problems with the way data flowed across the fledgling internet, which at the time connected about 100,000 computers across the world.
In the spirit of finding a fudge, they scribbled a new protocol across either two or three napkins. (They can’t recall how many and didn’t keep the originals.) This protocol was adopted as the new standard for …
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