The Internet Turns 30 This Week, Kind Of:

The Internet turns 30 this week — kind of - Technology on NBCNews.com

As the ball dropped in Times Square in New York City and New Year's greetings went out on Twitter, Facebook and other networks, the Internet itself was celebrating an important milestone of its own: its 30th birthday.

Well, kind of.

January 1 marked the 30th anniversary of the switchover of all computers on ARPANET — the Internet’s predecessor —to a technology called TCP/IP. TCP is short for “Transmission Control Protocol," and IP “Internet Protocol.” Together these two
technologies work together to route Internet data traffic — or “packets” — from one Internet-connected computer to another.

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