Oops. Be it known that I was not the one who added the ?v=1 to the end of the link to avoid the dupe detector. (I did, however, steal this link straight from /r/technology though.)
FWIW, this is a much more accurate title.
Prior-art :) - Just kiddin, as TCP is not patented as far as I know... but if it happened to be - would've that come as prior-art... coming from the ants?
(But then one have to prove that ants did that from long time ago, and did not actually learned by reverse engineering our backbones).