In 1957, Beranek sensed that consulting jobs would do well in the business of helping companies build machines that were more efficient amplifiers of human labor, which meant bringing about some kind of compatibility between humans and machines. ... As soon as IMP number five was installed at BBN, the team stepped up its testing program to measure network performance and its limitations. ... For a couple of years, half a dozen researchers had been trying to arrive at an acceptable file transfer protocol, or FTP. ...

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