Information technology for networking gradually grew in importance back in the 1990s. It became possible to take computers with different hardware configurations and operating systems and create a network using TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol).
90 年代，網際網路的通訊技術逐漸起飛，可在具有不同硬體架構與作業系統的電腦互連網路間通訊的「TCP/IP」通訊協定，一躍成為現今最常使用的通訊協定。