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Where the word port comes from (in networking)
A network port is a numbered endpoint that lets one host run many services at once. The word traces from the Latin for a gate or harbour, through the general computing sense of a connection point, into the TCP/IP port formalised by Jon Postel and Vint Cerf in the early ARPANET RFCs.
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