TCP/IP

TCP/IP n.  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 Redio] Sometimes expanded as "The Crap Phil Is
   Pushing".  The reference is to Phil Karn, KA9NQ, and the context
   is an ongoing technical/political war between the majority of sites
   still running AX.25 and a growing minority of TCP/IP relays.