[ih] ARPANET pioneer Jack Haverty says the internet was never finished
Miles Fidelman
mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Thu Mar 3 12:31:31 PST 2022
Noel Chiappa via Internet-history wrote:
> > From: Michael Grant
>
> > The address space (224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255) was very small, I
> > never understood how that was supposed to work in a global context.
>
> The whole Internet is an _experiment_ that grew out out of control.
Well, that can be said of pretty much anything new. For that matter it
can be said about life, the universe, and everything. :-)
> Noel
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown
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