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Follow BGP from its 1989 experimental RFC through early revisions, examining AS paths, reachability exchange, policy boundaries, and Internet growth.
Explore Gopher's University of Minnesota origins, selector-based TCP protocol, typed menus, distributed servers, and place beside the early Web.
Trace SMTP's standards history from the 1982 base protocol through ESMTP extensions and the later separation of message submission.
A sourced history of TCP congestion control, from the 1980s collapse and Reno to SACK, NewReno, and modern CUBIC behavior.
Trace the open IETF IPng selection process from address-growth concerns through RFC 1883, RFC 2460, and today's RFC 8200.
How David Mills evolved Internet time synchronization from early experiments into NTP, with offset estimation, clock discipline, strata, and redundancy.
Reconstruct the October 29, 1969 UCLA-to-SRI login from the IMP log, and separate ARPANET's first host message from later Internet myths.