[ih] History from 1960s to 2025

[Vint Cerf]

Jack's summary and others seem to neglect the impact of the Web, but
perhaps the intentional focus was only on the network layers (TCP/IP,
QUIC/UDP)? It would be hard to explain the success of the Internet without
the HTTP addition in the early 1990s.

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On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM Johan Helsingius via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 18/12/2025 6:11 am, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history wrote:
> > My point in that paragraph above is that from the point of view of many
> > consumers/users of the Internet the world is less end-to-end principle
> > of IP packets and more about people's favorite applications working
> > (without regard for the quality or elegance of the underlying protocol
> > plumbing.)
>
> Indeed, and isn't that what is happening with Google, Apple and
> Microsoft that have gotten to the point where they control the
> full path from app to cloud service, and have already started
> introducing new protocols (such as QUIC) and their own name
> services etc.?
>
>         Julf
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