Today’s Google picture is just one more reason I love Google.
Mundane = yes, Pointless = yes, Shared = yes. That is all.
Mundane = maybe.
Pointless = probably.
Shared? = Definitely not.
Linky-poo?
Lucy
Maybe this? Note the cord.
It turns out that TCP/IP, the core technology and protocols that makes Ethernet and by extension, the whole Internet and World Wide Web work, is having its 25th birthday today.
More specifically, this is the date it was adopted as the standard.
A bit of history is here.
ETA - Oh, and the title of this thread has nothing to do with Mars Attacks! and is out of sequence anyway. 
I loves me some tick-pip!
Do I recall correctly that they have an in-house artist especially for this sort of thing?
Yup.
Johnny L.A. – actually, note the confetti underneath the word. I kept wondering just WTF? I thought I was imagining things, but knowing Google, I saved the picture to my computer and enlarged it, and yeh – I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. Sorry about no link, figured most people could find the website easily enough on their own. :smack:
It took me a while to see it, but…wow, that’s cool!
Well, I set up an iGoogle page, and all I could see was the stupid monster facing whatever city that is. I had to sign out of Google and enter the address manually.
There are some cool things about Google, but I’m kinda starting to worry that they’re going to the dark side. Too many fingers in too many pies. IMHO. 
Wow. I’m looking at a 15" laptop screen and totally missed that!
So for us innocents out here, could someone explain syn syn ack ack? Or should I just Google it?
Answer here.
It’s modem-speak - signals dial-up modems used back in the day to sync up with others modems.
But they forgot FIN, FIN ACK.
More about Google’s holiday logos and the artist who creates them here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/holidaylogos.html
I agree to a degree. You know, it seems that every time I find something I really like – it has all the features I want, need and desire – it ends up going mainstream and being “enhanced.” Of course, by “enhanced” I mean dumbed down for the general population of morons. It makes me sad. It’s the price of being good, though – more people want you, but they get more demanding. It’s hard to maintain integrity and turn a profit in today’s world.
For those who didn’t notice the confetti – don’t feel bad. Like I said, I had to save the image file to be sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing, and then of course, I had a giggle-fest. Which is a lot like a google-fest, only noisier
I saw the SYN SYN ACK ACK right away… but until the link upthread, I had no idea what it meant, if anything. :smack:
Nope. It’s at a higher level than that. This is about TCP/IP, after all.
Ethernet would work just fine without TCP/IP. Ethernet’s a physical and low-level standard that can carry anything. TCP and IP are, however, essential to the Web and everything else that uses the Internet (as opposed to being used by the Internet). (Nobody ever mentions UDP. Damn shame.)
Who is the in-house artist? Those are brilliant.
It’s on page already linked, but here’s another link for you…