[ih] What does TELNET stand for?

[Steve Crocker]

Indeed.  Great fun.  It also caused me to remember a few stories about
finding the smallest number that's the sum of two cubes in two
different ways.  It was given in a class I took as an undergraduate, and,
of course, it is a famous piece of lore.  Ramamujan asked Hardy the number
of the taxicab he took when he visited Ramamujan in the hospital.  Hardy
said 1729, an uninteresting number.  "On the contrary," responded
Ramamujan.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)

When I was at MIT, Bill Henneman, a self taught awesome mathematician, said
he participated in a programming contest where they were presented with
that exact problem.  They were allowed to choose any programming language.
The fastest program determined the winner.  Henneman chose LISP and
submitted "(Print 1729)"

On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM Vint Cerf via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> great video - thanks Geoff!
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> On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
> Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> > On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
> > internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> > > [...]
> > > At the time, the most common way to use computers involved punch cards,
> > > and there were rooms of card-punch machines available to write your
> > > programs.  Timesharing was relatively new, rapidly emerging as a way to
> > > actually interact with a computer in real time.   It was much more
> > > pleasant that other jobs where I used punch cards, submitted my deck,
> > > went back later to get the printout, figured out why it crashed, fixed
> a
> > > bug, and repeated until my program worked. [...]
> >
> > please "enjoy" this fun short "Ellis D. Kropotechev and Zeus, This
> > marvelous time-sharing system" (produced by none other than John McCarthy
> > and Gary Feldman in 1967) that "documents" the issue of computers
> involving
> > punch cards -vs.- terminals and timesharing most spectacularly:
> > ➔➔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv5shcFi-og
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