The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

During the same rough period of time, the European International Organization for Standardization (ISO)—you might know it as ...
Hyperallergic

Digging Into the Layers of the Internet’s Past

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Crowdfund Insider

DLT Adoption: P2P Layer of Internet Computer Introduces QUIC for State Sync

Until now, state sync on the Internet Computer used the legacy P2P layer, which works over TCP. The new P2P layer is tailored for state sync and “uses the QUIC transport protocol, making it simpler, ...
Outlookindia

IPFS And Filecoin: Decentralizing The Internet’s Storage Layer

The web was intended to be open, fixed, and accessible to everybody. However, through time, its backbone has more and more come to count on centralized powers who command vast chunks of data storage.
The Economist

The story of the internet is all about layers

IN “INFORMATION RULES”—published in 1999 but still one of the best books on digital economics—Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian, two economists, popularised the term “network effects”, which means that in ...