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TCP-IP: TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. It’s basically how computers communicate over the internet and other networks
We had a great computer class elective in my highschool, I probably had the best public education available in the 90s, I was very lucky. Now I'm in Florida and I don't see how I could send my kid to public school here, it's atrocious.
they are separate layers IP is very simple source address to receiving address, mail can and will get lost or arrive in a different order, and everyone keeps a table like “IP’s starting with 1.2 are here” TCP fixes the fact that data can be lost by adding a sequence number to each message and waiting for a “I got it” message if 2 comes before 1, you wait for and read 1 and only then read 2 if you send 1 but never get an answer you resend it
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frphank 5 months ago
Yes and it's all a big mistake. The inventor of TCP, Van Jacobson, explains how it all went wrong: