The Agent Space Is About to Have Its TCP/IP Moment. Here Is What That Means for Builders.

In the early 1980s, every computer network was its own island. ARPANET had its own protocols. BITNET had its own. Xerox had its own. If you wanted machines on different networks to talk to each other, you either built a custom bridge or you accepted that they could not. Every application had to solve the networking problem itself. TCP/IP did not change what computers could do. It changed what developers had to think about. Once the transport layer was standardised, nobody building an application