On 1 January 1983, known as 'flag day', the ARPANET switched over from its original protocol to the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), designed by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in the 1970s. The protocols allowed different networks to be linked as an 'internetwork', with packets of data routed independently across any kind of connection. The simple, open design could be adopted by any network, from universities to companies. In the 1980s NSFNET connected research institutions, and in the 1990s the network was opened to commercial use. TCP/IP is still the common language of the Internet.
Before and after
- 1983Creation of ABAP
- 1983Rise of Sudan People's Liberation Movement
- 1983Muhammad Yunus founds Grameen Bank
- 1983Kary Mullis invents the polymerase chain reaction
- 1 January 1983The Internet is born as ARPANET adopts TCP/IP
- 26 January 1983Launch of IRAS
- 4 April 1983First flight of Challenger
- 18 April 1983Founding of Disney Channel
- from 5 June 1983 to 9 January 2005Second Sudanese Civil War
More in Science & technology
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- 1950Discovery of californium
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 29 August 1982Discovery of meitnerium
- June 2002Discovery of oganesson
The era
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