Happy birthday, TCP/IP!
Thanks to Google's reminder, the start of 2008 also marks the twenty-fifth birthsday of TCP/IP.
For ordinary people this new year Google logo means no more than new year celebration. But when you look closer on the bottom parts, you can see the coloured dots form a set of letters"SYN,SYN,ACK,ACK".
That is the handshake message of TCP/IP protocol, 25 years ago this day, the protocol was first implemented on U.S ARPANET. It is one of the basic protocols that, how to explain this, a basic language that enables computers on a network to find and communicate to each other.
Almost all internet communications today are based on TCP/IP.
I never fully understood how it works (it's not my field), but if you want to know more, the Wikipedia is always there.
