We were recently asked "How old is the Internet?" While there are many who equate the birth of the Internet with Arpanet, the U.S. Department of Defense's research network that grew into the Internet, the consensus is that the Internet's conception dates from the publication of a paper by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1974. This paper specified the Internet's architecture described the Transmission Control Protocol (the TCP of TCP/IP), and laid the foundation for the standards that would allow data communication across heterogeneous networks.