[ih] History of Tier 1 Networks

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 28-Apr-26 14:33, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via Internet-history wrote:

(at the end of his very, very informative message)

> I deliberately did not include names of some people because their 
> failure to recognise the Internet's potential would be deeply 
> embarrassing for them. <sigh>

Yes. I certainly saw people who found it very hard to accept reality
which was so obvious by ~1993, even before the Web broke out of
academia. People who had presumably been educated to apply critical
thinking, but didn't. I recall a meeting in Brussels in those years
where we were trying to persuade the monopoly operators to supply
34 Mbps international leased lines and they told us (the customers)
that we couldn't possibly need that much capacity. They were almost
literally leaving money lying on the table. They had no sense that
we were all living on a literally exponential growth curve.

But then there were also people like Peter Lothberg who had the
accelerator firmly on the floor every day.

Regards/Ngā mihi
    Brian Carpenter