> or everyone talking about layers all the time This is super funny, but also a bit of a surprise for someone born after the referenced thread occurred. As som

> or everyone talking about layers all the time This is super funny, but also a bit of a surprise for someone born after the referenced thread occurred. As someone who only learned about the "layers" model of networks in college more than two decades after the discussion, it never occurred to me that the original intent of the model was to describe forthcoming protocols from OSI; we were just told "this layer means TCP or UDP, this layer means IP, etc.", and no one mentioned any historical context around the choices.