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or herald of a dark age of network technology (in no way am I insulting Shannon) there are problems that come up in web development that were solved by electri
by olewhalehunter 10y ago
or herald of a dark age of network technology (in no way am I insulting Shannon)
there are problems that come up in web development that were solved by electrical engineers 100 years ago
- jpt4 10y agoExamples, if you please? I am very interested, as computer science (broadly speaking) seems to be a field in which, with higher incidence than might be expected, the ancients knew certain things better (or knew fewer worse things) than the present.
- chas 10y agoNot web development per se, but Clos Networks[0] were originally designed for telephone systems and re-emerged in large datacenter networks[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos_network [1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43837.html http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43837.html