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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.
Trace the NIC host table's scaling failure, Mockapetris's delegated DNS design, the staged 1983–85 migration, caching tradeoffs and later DNSSEC.
One is a network of networks from the 1970s-80s; the other is a hypertext application built on top of it in 1990. The difference still matters.
What Tim Berners-Lee's August 6, 1991 Usenet summary actually announced—and why it was neither the internet's birth nor the first site's launch date.
Trace ARPANET from NCP through TCP/IP, gateways and the 1983 transition—and correct the myth that one protocol simply swallowed every rival network.
Gore never said 'I invented the internet.' The exact 1999 sentence, how it mutated within days, and what Cerf and Kahn say his record shows.
Find RFCs, decode status and obsoleted-by chains, read MUST/SHOULD normative language, and use the primary specs behind email and the web.