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Today is the 25th anniversary of TCP/IP, which a standard abstract model for network and computer communications. TCP/IP was originally developed by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - which is an agency of the United StatesDepartment of Defense) and has proved highly influential on the structure of the Internet. For more detailed information, there is, as you might expect, a wikipedia article on TCP/IP.

That’s all very interesting to us geeks, but does anybody outside of geekdom care? Well they do now: Google’s home page displays a customized version of the company logo to celebrate the event. Mouse over the logo displays “Happy New Year & 25 years of TCP/IP”, and if you click it, Google does a search for January 1 tcp/ip.