[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. Mike