![]() military and computer science researchers. In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love. ![]() The dark horse contender is ARPA’s Internet Protocols (TCP/IP), defined only by a self-governing community of those who have access to this closed network, mostly U.S. IBM’s System Network Architecture (SNA) dominates the world of corporate computing, and will carry the majority of the world’s networking traffic up through the late 1980s. Begun in 1977 by a member of a team that pioneered internetworking on the French CYCLADES network, OSI is officially published in 1984.ĭigital Equipment’s DECNET is a strong competitor. ![]() OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) is the first with international backing, and support from the International Standards Organization as an official standard. By the early 1980s, several different national and corporate protocols are competing with each other. Many agreed on the goal: to develop a global network of networks, or an “internet” in the parlance of the time. Facebook Seventy years ago, Eric Blair, writing under a pseudonym George Orwell, published 1984, now generally considered a classic of dystopian fiction. ![]()
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