History
Happy Birthday Janette Toral!
As chief proponent of the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000 and founder of the Philippine Internet Commerce Society, she is among the pioneers of Filipino personal online media. Towards the end of the 20th century, she pulled me out of a plucky little university seminar and plunged me into the thick of the Internet industry. If it weren’t for her, you might not be reading my blog today.
Happy birthday to my discoverer and mentor, the Digital Filipino, Janette Toral.
January 1 TCP/IP
On January 1, 1983, 400 computers on ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet, hooked up to each other using Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
Twenty-five years later, TCP/IP powers the modern Internet. Google marks this important anniversary with a very special Google Doodle.
The confetti at the bottom forms the words SYN SYN/ACK ACK — synchronize, synchronize/acknowledge, acknowledge — the three-way handshake of a TCP/IP connection.
Twenty-five years after that first historic handshake, the world is connected. May 2008 bring you even more heartfelt handshakes and meaningful connections.
