[DC LoCo] Jeff, forward this to your old Yorktown / Woodlawn students & their parents...

[Kevin Cole]

[A bit of background: A few years ago, Vint Cerf, who was REALLY
instrumental in developing TCP/IP which is the heart and soul of what we've
all come to know and love as the Internet, gave a talk at Yorktown High
School on the Interplanetary Internet, and the then experimental DTP -- the
Delay Tolerant Protocol, since renamed to Disruption Tolerant Protocol.  A
few of Jeff's students decided to become beta testers.  Jeff can tell y'all
more.]

Fast forward to 2008...

| NASA Tests First Deep-Space Internet
|
| ScienceDaily (Nov. 19, 2008) — NASA has successfully tested the
| first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.

Read the entire story at:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081118160432.htm

And if you've never heard the name Vint Cerf, see:

http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#vint
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf