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Quarreltoday at 12:55 PM0 repliesview on HN

To give a more nuanced reply versus the "you're wrong" ones already here, the difference is that UDP adds send and receive ports, enabling most modern users (& uses) of UDP. Hence, it is the "User" datagram protocol.

(it also adds a checksum, which used to be more important than it is nowadays, but still well worth it imho.)