There are many claimants, and Google search reveals a lot of SEO'd information. I am genuinely curious about how the protocol evolved, and please include references based on your statements.
There's a reason I didn't rely on the WikiPedia! It can be edited.
If you're not going to believe any references, why ask for them? "That one guy" is a fake and a fraud, but if you want to find something on the web that supports him, I'm sure you can succeed.
We could provide a read-only wikipedia but it wouldn't have much content ;)