Kind of expected an article titled 'How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet' to tell us how 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet. Even I could of to

Kind of expected an article titled 'How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet' to tell us how 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet. Even I could of told you, 'the engineers at the time picked 1500 bytes'.