jun 23, 1988 - Major Improvement
of TCP
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Van Jacobson’s algorithms for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) helped solve the problem of congestion and are used in over 90% of Internet hosts today. Widely credited with enabling the Internet to expand in size and support increasing speed demands, he helped the Internet survive a major traffic surge (1988-89) without collapsing.
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By Nicolas Fontan
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