{"id":149,"date":"2021-07-06T23:31:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T22:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2021-07-06T23:31:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T22:31:02","slug":"the-protocol-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"The Protocol Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Everyone agreed on the goal: develop a global computer network. They didn\u2019t agree on how. By the early 1980s, several different protocols competed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OSI (Open Systems Interconnect), backed by European telephone monopolies and most governments, was favoured. Other strong competitors included two corporate networks, IBM\u2019s SNA and DEC\u2019s DECNET. The dark horse contender was the internet, defined only by a self-governing community dependent on volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The internet community was nimble &#8211; able to develop in months what took the OSI committee-based process years &#8211; but it scared off some potential adopters because nobody seemed \u201cin charge\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone agreed on the goal: develop a global computer network. They didn\u2019t agree on how. By the early 1980s, several different protocols competed. OSI (Open Systems Interconnect), backed by European telephone monopolies and most governments, was favoured. Other strong competitors included two corporate networks, IBM\u2019s SNA and DEC\u2019s DECNET. The dark horse contender was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}