certainly, TCP/IP was a DARPA project, lots of other things were also financed by DARPA. https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/tcp-ip https://www.darpa.mil/ab

certainly, TCP/IP was a DARPA project, lots of other things were also financed by DARPA. https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/tcp-ip https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/tcp-ip TCP/IP was a major change in networking, because all telephone companies were used to have reliability at the link layer - that's how you do a telephone network. But TCP/IP is much more scalable, because it has a reliability layer that is not dependent on the link layer.