The Story of Google Doodles

New Year's Day and 25 Years of TCP/IP: Jan. 1, 2008
"One of the key internet anniversaries fell on January 1st, the invention of TCP/IP—a set of communications protocols that powers the internet—and since we traditionally do a New Year's doodle," says Hwang, "we were struggling to come up with a design that could work for both. We finally embedded a hidden message in the confetti 'SYN SYN/ACK and ACK' which any network engineer will recognize."

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