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A protocol-level history of ARPANET's NCP-to-TCP/IP transition, the planning RFCs, host conversion, gateways, DNS timing, and what flag day did not mean.
Reconstruct the October 29, 1969 UCLA-to-SRI login from the IMP log, and separate ARPANET's first host message from later Internet myths.
Trace ARPANET from NCP through TCP/IP, gateways and the 1983 transition—and correct the myth that one protocol simply swallowed every rival network.
Ray Tomlinson deserves credit for one specific breakthrough: networked email. Same-machine electronic mail existed years before he touched it.