| washingtonpost.com: No End to New Ideas (2134 words) |
 | Crocker, who in 1969 developed many of the rules for how host computers communicate with each other on a network that became the Internet, has lived in his Bethesda home for 13 years but in many rooms it looks more like 13 weeks. |
| Crocker's answer was a letter titled "Request for Comments," which summarized the work that had been done and solicited ideas for the emerging network. |
| Crocker noticed that many telecom firms were losing millions of dollars because of the difficulty of getting their systems -- from billing to order entry -- to communicate. |
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