This project contains sample programs demonstrating how modern sockets work.

There are more years since the Sockets API was created in 1983, than there were in turn between Sockets and the first commercial computers (Univac and IBM) that shipped in the early 1950s. College networking classes miss much that has transpired since then, such as scalability, multi-core program, encryption, and so on.

This project contains numerous examples of what students should learn. On one hand, many of these are "advanced" examples, in that they go beyond the typical textbook. On the other hand, they should be considered basic examples, in that real-world network code will use these concepts.