The history of the internet is one of asynchronous and distributed efforts along a common path. As this suggests, many different efforts led to the technology that is a staple in the lives of most Americans. Batch Processing, Time Sharing (DTSS, TIES, MECC), Packet Switching (ARPANET, NSFnet), and Packet Radio (Ethernet, Alohanet) all played important roles. Particularly, the 1977 California Van that successfully transmitted PRNET to ARPANET to SATNET using TCP and IP protocols. TCP was used for host to host changes, while IP was responsible for internetwork exchanges. By 1983, everything was supposed to be adopted onto ARPANET for standardization, to solve the issue of not being able to send information from one network to another. The implementation of TCP/IP as a standard was important in being able to make an interconnected network.