In A.D. 2101 War Was Beginning
Posted on 03/12/2009 3:06:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Edited on 03/12/2009 3:09:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
In A.D. 2101 War Was Beginning
TUBES.... GLORIOUS TUBES!!!!!
pure irony.
Are you Matthew Broderick?
The WWW wasn’t born until Mosiac was born
Did they have those in airports at the phone stations. I remember seeing people place the receiver into a device. I wore a heart monitor for a week a few years ago and when I would have palpitations I would hold the device over my heart and then get up and dial a number in Atlanta and place the monitor over the mouth piece to download the data...
I just hope none of those Canadian Geese that took Sully’s plane down were carrying important information.
A series of tubes.
I love the ping command. It does one thing, and does it well, without a heck of a lot of overhead and theatrics. Security guys at the company I work for keep trying to kill ping, but it’s so damned useful for troubleshooting, that they can’t seem to manage it. I tried to download the source code from the link, but got a 404. :-(
Did you read the Amazon review? :-)
Mike died nearly a decade ago, so I’m not surprised the link is bad, as that was the arl page. Try http://www.ping127001.com/ping.shar for shell archive, or http://www.ping127001.com/pingpage/ping.text for text version.
Yeah. The review was great. I like the bit about not recommending it for management types!
thanks for the link. You might say it was a fairly historic bit of code. I thought it was interesting how he talked about the fact that if he’d known how widespread the use of ping was eventually going to be, that he’d have spent more time on it. The fellow who came up with SMTP said the same thing. The guys (and gals) who were building the foundations of what later became the internet had no clue of what the internet would become, or it would have been done much differently. I’d argue that in many ways, it would probably be less useful.
That movie was a complete work of fiction... A guy like him would never be in a room with a girl like Aly Sheedy!
Mark
Sure it was... Graphic web browsers and apps were nothing more than a conspiracy for hardware manufacturers. REAL computer users use text based apps. If it can't be done in 8 bits and 64KB, it doesn't need to be done! In fact, the only REAL reason for graphical user interfaces is to be able to have multiple XTERMs open at once on a single monitor. And you don't REALLY need that either! I used to have my 12 vttys on my Wyse 60 and SCO Xenix 386 system!
Marc Andreeson was a sissy! Ahhh... (pining for) the good old days!
Mark
I read an interview with Bill Joy (one of the founders of Sun Microsystems) a long time ago, who said that if he had known how popular "vi" would become, he never would have created it. On the other hand, I once attended a lecture given by Radia Perlman (a brilliant and very funny lady, sometimes known as the "Mother of the Internet") who said that when she was presented with an assignment (while working for DEC) that required that she come up with a way of getting bridges to work in parallel with each other for fault tolerance, she came up with the Spanning Tree Algorithm. And she felt it was so simple and elegant that she spent more time composing a poem about it (an Algorhyme) than she did on the algorithm!
I think that I shall never see
A graph more lovely than a tree.
A tree whose crucial property
Is loop-free connectivity.
A tree which must be sure to span.
So packets can reach every LAN.
First the Root must be selected
By ID it is elected.
Least cost paths from Root are traced
In the tree these paths are placed.
A mesh is made by folks like me
Then bridges find a spanning tree.
Mark
Yeah. Gopher was a real treat
I am aware of that. Just pointing out that the initial network of interconnected computers dates back even 20 more years prior.
LOL that’s great!
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