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Adrian B.G.

A group of kids are trying to talk into the school yard.
They need a technology so simple that would allow communication even if one kid left the circle. They were already talking into tin cans, so they invented the strings (TCP).

On a serious note, a good history lesson on why and how HTTP and TCP/IP was created Jeremy Keith