Happy New Year!

Google celebrates the New Year and the birth of TCP/IP 25 years ago, milestone invention leading to the modern Internet.


The New Year Article

Google's Search page's logo changes from time to time, usually to reflect current events or special days. Today, January 1, 2008, Google's logo celebrates the new year and the 25 years of TCP/IP. Clicking the logo leads you to a search results page with articles about TCP/IP.

Google logo for the celebration of New Year and 25 Years of TCP/IP
courtesy by Google.com

Today's IP networking represents a synthesis of two developments that began in the 1960s and 1970s, namely LANs (Local Area Networks) and the Internet, both of which have revolutionized computing.

The Internet protocol suite came from work done by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the early 1970s. After building the pioneering ARPANET in the late 1960s, DARPA started work on a number of other data transmission technologies.

In 1975, a two-network TCP/IP communications test was performed between Stanford and University College London (UCL). In November, 1977, a three-network TCP/IP test was conducted between the U.S., UK, and Norway. Between 1978 and 1983, several other TCP/IP prototypes were developed at multiple research centres. A full switchover to TCP/IP on the ARPANET took place January 1, 1983.

Of course, today is also the start of a new year.

Here we are in 2008, and I thank you people for visiting Sonicsoft Wired's blog. Happy New Year everyone!