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This is why I like the internet so much. It was so well designed in the sense that a single platonic decision somewhere does affect people else where in the ne
by max_ 3y ago
This is why I like the internet so much.
It was so well designed in the sense that a single platonic decision somewhere does affect people else where in the network.
It's well decentralised.
Kudos to who ever contributed in designing these internet protocols. DNS, ICANN, TCP/IP et Al.
I wonder who these people are or if they have any documentation that describes how they arrived at their decisions? I suspect people designing the fediverse can learn alot from them.
Who are these people? I only hear of Vint Cerf.
- zer00eyz 3y agoDARPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA Velcro, The Internet... Silly US government projects sometimes have down stream impact. Even in defense, the government funding science is how we got here. Look at early computing (UINVAC, to CRAY) the history and the people have all sorts of ties to early crypto research and the navy! Later private industry gets in on the act. UNIX is a byproduct of AT&T, the monopoly version. The stuff that came out of bell labs that got tossed into the public because of a settlement is amazing.
- beardedwizard 3y agoThe rfcs all exist with names still on them, you can read them too. No stone tablets involved.
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- globular-toast 3y agoThe internet was designed by the US Department of Defence specifically to be robust to attack. The fundamental design that makes it different from earlier telecommunications networks is its use of packet switching over circuit switching. DNS, however, is thoroughly centralised and not part of the internet per se. I'm also not sure how redundant and robust the internet is in practice these days. The web certainly has single points of failure like Cloudflare etc. The GNU Name System is an example of a decentralised name system.