Category Archives: Remeber the Guy

Remember the guy series has the purpose to remember us for some of the network pioneers.

With sufficient trust obviously pigs still fly so well…

Posted on October 24, 2015 by niau

When somebody asks you to do something :) that you feel is rather stupid with an unnecessary level of complexity come back to the basics read this and remember what Randy stated :)  He loves flying pigs and he was … Continue reading →

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David Isenberg – “The Rise of the Stupid Network”

Posted on December 23, 2012 by niau

Let’s remember for David Isenberg. Many years ago he wrote “The rise of the stupid network” explaining why when we have dump terminals the network shall be smart e.g “intelligent” and why when we have “clever” terminals like PCs, smartphones … Continue reading →

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Paul Baran – the Godfather

Posted on July 16, 2010 by niau

A piece of history… Remember the Guy. If Paul has not developed the concept of distributed packet switching network well most of us would still deal with the old PSTN switches. Baran’s concepts were applied in ARPA network which become … Continue reading →

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