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A complete walkthrough finding, reading, and actually understanding Request for Comments documents — the original, primary-source specifications behind email, the early internet, and much of the web's foundational technology.
These two terms get used interchangeably in casual conversation constantly. One is a physical and logical network; the other is a specific application built on top of it, invented years later by a specific person.
One of the most repeated political misquotes in tech culture. Here's the exact sentence Gore actually said, on the record, and how three days of mockery turned it into something he never claimed.
Tim Berners-Lee's first website had already been running quietly at CERN since December 1990. In August 1991, he posted a public invitation to collaborate — the moment the web actually became something the wider world could join.
ARPANET was one research network among several incompatible experiments in the 1970s. TCP/IP is the specific technical decision that let it absorb all the others into a single, unified internet.