Chapter 2. The Internet
This chapter provides an overview of the TCP/IP suite and the associated protocols and standards involved in Internet communication, including a deep dive into those which are most relevant for multiplayer game programming.
Origins: Packet Switching
The Internet as we know it today is a far cry from the four-node network as which it started life in late 1969. Originally known as ARPANET, it was developed by the United States Advanced Research Projects Agency with the stated goal of providing geographically dispersed scientists with access to uniquely powerful computers, similarly geographically dispersed.
ARPANET was to accomplish its goal using a newly invented technology called packet switching. Before the advent of ...
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