1. [Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol] The
wide-area-networking protocol that makes the Internet work, and the
only one most hackers can speak the name of without laughing or
retching. Unlike such allegedly `standard' competitors such as X.25,
DECnet, and the ISO 7-layer stack, TCP/IP evolved primarily by
actually being used, rather than being handed down from on high by a
vendor or a heavily-politicized standards committee. Consequently, it
(a) works, (b) actually promotes cheap cross-platform connectivity,
and (c) annoys the hell out of corporate and governmental
empire-builders everywhere. Hackers value all three of these
properties. See {creationism}.
2. [Amateur Packet Radio] Formerly expanded as "The Crap Phil Is
Pushing". The reference is to Phil Karn, KA9Q, and the context was an
ongoing technical/political war between the majority of sites still
running AX.25 and the TCP/IP relays. TCP/IP won.
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