The Internet: The Explosive Adoption
While the Organization for International Standardization (ISO) was designing the ultimate standard for computer networking (the OSI model), Internet developers in the U.S., U.K., and Scandinavia needed something that works -- TCP/IP.
Facing market pressures, computer technology manufacturers begun to put TCP/IP technology on any conceivable type of computer ==>
TCP/IP became a practical way for computers from different manufacturer’s to communicate (De facto standard)