"Craig Labovitz was a newly hired Merit engineer who had abandoned his PhD studies in artificial intelligence at Michigan because he was so fascinated by his at

"Craig Labovitz was a newly hired Merit engineer who had abandoned his PhD studies in artificial intelligence at Michigan because he was so fascinated by his at-first-temporary NSFNET work assignment. “Most people today don’t know that the heart of the Internet was once on North Campus,” says Labovitz. “It was where the operations and on-call center was, and where all the planning and the engineering took place.”" Found this article trying to find a story (http://blog.deepfield.net/2012/04/18/how-big-is-amazons-cloud/ http://blog.deepfield.net/2012/04/18/how-big-is-amazons-clou...) referenced the these stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10869338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10869338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10869616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10869616 Had no idea the growth rate of networking in this era.