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The Internet turns 30 this week

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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. Vint Cerf, Google vice president and "chief Internet evangelist," who co-created TCP/IP, explained in a blog postpublished Jan. 2 why this was important to the Internet’s future. “There was no common language,” he said.

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Vint Cerf

Overall Sentiment: 0.235786

Relevance: 0.673965

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0.183499	“I feel immensely privileged to have played a part and, like any proud parent, have delighted in watching [the Internet] grow,” Cerf muses. ...
0.121784	“I feel immensely privileged to have played a part and, like any proud parent, have delighted in watching [the Internet] grow,” Cerf muses. “I hope you’ll join me today in raising a toast to the Internet — may it continue to connect us for years to come.”
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.305283 Mean: 0.1526415 Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Tim Berners-Lee

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.355877

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Facility: Times Square

Overall Sentiment: 0.296865

Relevance: 0.31304

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FieldTerminology: Internet Protocol.

Overall Sentiment: -0.127527

Relevance: 0.370998

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