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I was trying to get a hold of him for years. People who knew him kept saying they'd get me in touch, never did. His name pops up a lot during the 60s and 70s a
by kristopolous 8mo ago
I was trying to get a hold of him for years. People who knew him kept saying they'd get me in touch, never did.
His name pops up a lot during the 60s and 70s as an author on numerous articles about networks, often regarding many competing, now defunct alternative networks to the Internet.
Examples of scans I personally made: https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/farber-datamation-0472-01.png https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/farber-datamati... and https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/farber-datamation-0472-02.png https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/farber-datamati...
He's one of those people where you go through archival industry journals and are like "oh look there he is again"
For instance, SNOBOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL
- quadhome 8mo agoIP-Asia met every week via Zoom. Several other people whose names appear in the same literature frequented it too. Pop in tonight for the final session?
- kristopolous 8mo agoI had no idea. I can't find out where this is. Can you send me a link
- rinze 8mo agoHis mailing list was public. No harm in sending the link to the meeting for last week, I guess. You can find the Zoom meeting coordinates there; they were reused every time. https://ip.topicbox.com/groups/ip/T2c0d41d801eaa76c-Mbdfe98390a83ac7effcdd521/ccrc-ip-asia-feb-2-takeaways-from-consumer-electronics-show-2026 https://ip.topicbox.com/groups/ip/T2c0d41d801eaa76c-Mbdfe983...
- kristopolous 8mo agoThanks. Really wish I had known about this. I wanted his commentary on an article I mentioned him in from 2022 I would have paid serious money to have gotten that This is the article btw https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history Here's the one other large project I've got at that domain https://siliconfolklore.com/scale/ https://siliconfolklore.com/scale/ It for a history talk in 2024. I worked months on that
- kristopolous 8mo agoThanks for that link. I attended that at 4am california time. So sorry I didn't ever get to talk to him. It was like attending a funeral for someone I never was able to track down. Feel kinda terrible about all of it. Really sucks, sounds like he was a very friendly guy.