There's a name I haven't heard in decades

a long time ago, the group I worked with helped test Fore Systems' first fiber channel boards for a specific architecture. it was absurd at the time

In hindsight, it is obvious that there were IPng proposals and concepts NSA really didn't want to happen.

For instance flow-routing would have made their "collect everything" a lot more expensive.

Same, probably to a lesser degree with multi-homing.

- don't expect them to understand the internet...

uunet!selidor!pae

uucp.

Back to dialup then? Take two? Anyone?

the internet is the "dancing bear" of networks.

Names I'd forgotten.

The Dover training space was really nice. Top floor of an old fabric mill, owned by NorthWestern Mutual Insurance.
They stored some of the art collection there.
Renoir ballerina sketches hanging next to the elevators.

The cafeteria was good too.

yeah. we'd find bugs and talk to tony or paul or dino, then they'd have us put in a ticket w tac and email them them ticket number so they could grab it.

when cisco "outlawed" talking directly to engineers, life really started to suck.

had similar relationships with the sun foks.

Putting in a ticket on a RocketPort terminal card and getting a call from Ted T'so, who had a driver fix in about 30 minutes made me realize how small the world was at that time.

if you weren't running a cisco ios load with a cisco engineer's initials in the version string, you weren't a tier 1 isp.

one of the really early NANOGs at merit, folks realized that a bomb at that meeting and the internet might never work again. probably 50 folks at the meeting?

i do remember a day when we got a bug fix from tony li and we loaded it based on "boots in the lab" and rebooted about 70% of all the core backbone routers from a terminal room at a usenix conference. didn't make the papers, no one fired us.

Serial or parallel?

yup. boone garage. good times.