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The TCP/IP protocol is used by computers to communicate over the Internet. Any device using the Internet – even your intelligent lightbulb – utilizes this protocol. And as you probably know, it’s an acronym for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP).
In fact, TCP/IP is much more than a protocol. It’s a full set of communication protocols that use different layers to specify how the data is broken down into packets, how it is assigned an address, how it travels through the lightning fast Internet lanes, and how it is received. Technical standards are defined and maintained by the Internet Engineering Task Force .
TCP/IP was built by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) back in the 70s. The first version of the TCP protocol was published in 1974. Later on, when new versions emerged, TCP was split in two sections: Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol.
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