remember the "diameter of the internet"?

Tue Jun 18 17:59:05 UTC 2002

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 12:34, brett watson wrote:

> no, just lamenting the passing of an era.  an era where we engineers 
> cooperated, and "just fixed" the problems as they occured.  and we didn't 
> do things like this.

Keep in mind the reason why the era passed.  During that era, you had
top level, blue sky engineers.  Now the field has been saturated by a
lot of less than desirable "engineers" out there (not calling you one at
all) that ruined it for us all...