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Extracting the Essential Simplicity of the Internet: Looking past inessential complexities to explain the Internet's simple yet daring design.

The article focuses on the Internet's essential simplicity. The authors discuss the fundamental Internet design choices that have been in place since the 1980s, examines the rationale behind these design choices in an effort to understand the "why, not how" of the Internet, and offers insights for a...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 64 - 75
Main Authors: MCCAULEY, JAMES, SHENKER, SCOTT, VARGHESE, GEORGE
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2023
Subjects:
Internet
Internet software
Internet governance
Internet programming
Computer programming
Web development
Web design
Computer science
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