[ih] How Plato Influenced the Internet

Craig Partridge craig at tereschau.net
Mon Aug 23 12:04:46 PDT 2021


I think you're making my point.... in communications, once one invented
packet switching (which I think we all acknowledge was a big step), then
the choice space exploded in communications.

Craig

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:58 PM Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:

> On 8/23/2021 11:46 AM, Craig Partridge via Internet-history wrote:
> > If the available technology is limited (as it was in
> > the 1950s/60s/70s and early 1980s in many dimensions) then your solutions
> > to certain problems are going to look rather similar.
>
>
> That explains why ISDN looks so much like the TCP/IP?
>
>
> d/
>
> ps. yes, I should apologize.  no, I won't.
>
> --
> Dave Crocker
> Brandenburg InternetWorking
> bbiw.net
>


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