A Brief History of TCP/IP and TCP Congestion Control
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              Timeline                  Comments

	~1973  NCP                      Network Control Program (TCP/IP together, Vint Cerf)
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        ~1975 TCP  IP                   TCP (transport layer) separated from IP (network layer)
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	~1980  |                        Official RFCs for UDP (RFC 768), TCP (RFC 793), and IP (RFC 791)
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	~1983  BSD 4.3                  First open release of TCP/IP source code in BSD 4.3 Unix
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	~1986  problem!                 TCP congestion collapse observed at Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL)
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	       LB  DB                   Loss-Based (LB) versus Delay-Based (DB) congestion control
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	~1988  Tahoe  \                 "TCP Congestion Avoidance and Control"  Van Jacobson (ACM SIGCOMM'88)
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	~1989  Reno     \               Fast Retransmit algorithm based on triple duplicate ACKs
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	~1991  NewReno    \	        Fast Recovery algorithm  by Sally Floyd (LBL)
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	~1992  |          Vegas         Delay-based congestion control (vs loss-based)
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	~1993  SACK                     Selective ACKnowledgement (SACK) version of TCP
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	       ...                      and many more! (CUBIC, Westwood, Fast, Scalable, Compound, BBR...)