One Page Papers

Series · 5 posters · 1969 to 1991

The origins of the Internet

From RFC 1, dated 7 April 1969, to Tim Berners-Lee’s announcement of the WorldWideWeb project on 6 August 1991, by way of ASCII for the ARPA network (1969) and the headers of IP and TCP, specified in September 1981.

Plan the wall

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The posters

Each poster in its first theme; its page has the others, and a wallpaper.

  1. 1 · Internet & networking

    RFC 1: Host Software

    Steve Crocker, 1969

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  2. 2 · Computing pioneers

    RFC 20: ASCII format for Network Interchange

    Vint Cerf, 1969

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  3. 3 · Internet & networking

    RFC 791: Internet Protocol

    Jon Postel, 1981

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  4. 4 · Internet & networking

    RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol

    Jon Postel, 1981

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  5. 5 · Manifestos & announcements

    WorldWideWeb: the announcement on alt.hypertext

    Tim Berners-Lee, 1991

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US formats

Letter, Tabloid, 18 × 24 and 24 × 36 in are not in the repository but in the latest release, in one zip per category, with every theme:

The A, 50 × 70 and 60 × 80 cm PDFs of these posters, in every theme, are also in the latest release, in one zip per category: Internet & networking, Computing pioneers, Manifestos & announcements.

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