For its birthday, does TCP/IP get a 7-layer cake?

Ok, that was bad.  I freely admit it.  But that doesn’t change the fact that good ol’ TCP/IP is in fact 25 years old, as I was tipped off to by Jeff Caruso’s Network World blog.

It was Jan. 1, 1983, when Internet precursor ARPANET switched over fully to TCP/IP. TCP/IP is so well-known that it’s one of those acronyms we no longer spell out at Network World, but in honor of the date, we should address this underappreciated and taken-for-granted bit of engineering by its full name, Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol.

As I like to say, you learn something new every day.  I wonder if future generations of network types look to us old folks and ask, “Do you remember where you were when TCP/IP was born?”