Internet history

Hank Nussbacher hank at interall.co.il
Fri Oct 22 04:45:43 UTC 2021


On 21/10/2021 21:52, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2021, at 2:37 PM, Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
>>
>> [changed to a more appropriate subject]
>>
>> On 10/20/21 3:52 PM, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote:
>>> On 10/20/21 3:26 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
>>>> Just as an interesting aside if you're interested in the history of networking, When Wizards Stayed Up Late is quite elucidating.
>>>
>>> +10 to Where Wizards Stay Up Late.
>>>
>>> I recently re-acquired (multiple copies of) it.  (Multiple because I wanted the same edition that I couldn't locate after multiple moves.)
>>>
>>>
>> One of the things about the book was that it finally confirmed for me what I had heard but thought might be apocryphal which was that one of my co-workers at Cisco (Charlie Klein) was the first one to receive a packet on ARPAnet. I guess it sent an "l" and then immediately crashed. They fixed the problem and the next time they got "login:". It also casts shade on another early well known person which gives me some amount of schadenfreude.
> 
> It was “LO”, and Mr. Kline sent the packets, but you got it essentially right.
> 
> Source: https://uclaconnectionlab.org/internet-museum/
> 
> The last picture confirms Mr. Kline sent the LO and crashed the WHOLE INTERENT (FSVO “Internet”) just a couple seconds after it started. 

Reminds me of the time the entire Swift network crashed when the capital 
of Ecuador (Quito) was added to the network. :-)

-Hank


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