Streaming in 1970s. NVP & ST: the very first real-time streaming protocols
summary
Covers the 1970s Network Voice Protocol (NVP) and Internet Stream Protocol (ST / IP v5) developed at MIT Lincoln Labs, explaining their innovations: sessions, assessing available capacity, sender‑receiver rate negotiation, data transfer mechanisms, and the argument for network‑layer session/resource support. Compares those original ideas to later implementations in modern protocols—naming WebRTC, QUIC and MOQ—and includes historical photos and videos of the early systems along with discussion of the developers’ motivations.
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