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Internet History In Pictures
prostoalex writes "Tired of reading black-on-white text on Internet history and its celebrities? The Faces in front of the Monitors features the Internet history in pictures. See the legendary BBN IMP team, Linus naked and drinking beer, Bill Gates and Paul Allen and other luminaries."
I've even seen a Pluribus IMP in operation.
http://www.mysticunderground.net/mirror/
what have they EVER contributed to the net besides a series of operating systems that tend to do nothing but break standards and put massive security holes into the hands of the masses? It wasnt even until win 2000 that Uncle Bill had a decent tcp/ip stack, which was conviently borrowed / stolen (depending on your point of view) from free bsd.
Did m$ design any of the core net protocols? Dns? bgp? smtp? nntp? http?
I didnt think so, and their contributions to the net are little to nothing.
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
I just checked their website, and they didn't have my personal favorite...
Slashdot's first reaction to VMware
Some names (and photos) seem to be missing.
... and many many others. One more than a few occassions siblings were involved - Judy and Deborah Estrin, and the Lyons brothers come to mind.
I'd suggest John Romkey (author of PC/IP and one of the two original Internet toasters), Phil Karn (KA9Q), Louis Pouzin (I probably misspelled that), Don Davies. Mike St. Johns, Jake Feinler, Bob Braden, Milo, Jun Murai, Marshall Rose, Dave Mills, Dave Farber, Dave Clark, Jerry Saltzer, Noel Chiappa, Steve Casner, Dan Lynch, Radia Pearlman
Carl Malamud's 1992 book, "Exploring the Internet" has a lot of anecdotes and a few photos.
John T. Moy - OSPF Tony Li (BGP), Yakov Rehkter (BGP, MPLS)
The Internet's nature is peer to peer - 20050301_cs_profs.pdf
>Then he maded a new protocol NetBIOS *snip*
TOTAL BULLSHIT. Bill Gates had nothing to do with the creation of NetBIOS. The NetBIOS interface was developed by Sytec Inc. (now Hughes LAN Systems) for International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1983. The original version of Windows, released in November 1983, had no network support. Microsoft didn't even provide integrated network support in Windows until the release of Windows for Workgroups in October 1992. Before the release of Windows for Workgroups you had to use non-Microsoft network protocol software to network Windows boxes.
You sir are rather ignorant, I assume that is why the internet runs on IPX or UDP, LOL. Nope, it seems that the TCP/IP (hint the last letters IP are for Internet Protocol) is what the internet runs over. Maybe TCP-IP seems to be a "small" detail to you, but unless you come up with something better... I rather keep Vinton Cerf in his original place and inventing the protocol that the internet uses mostly to transfer data is a rather important achievement. In case you did not know it, it also happens that it was Cerf (together with Kahn) who coined the term "internet" on a '74 paper on TCP. So let's see he came up with the protocol, and the name. Is that just not enough for you?
This is not even close to the apples to oranges comparison you tried to accomplish. Oh, well it is not like ignorance ever stopped anyone from posting on slashdot.
Yep the site was slashdotted, my poor little 5MB ds3 wasn't quite enough to handle it. BTW I'm the host not the site owner.
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He pretended it didn't exist...
"He" wasn't the only one. Someone else already pointed out that your claim that Microsoft invented NetBIOS is incorrect. I'll point out that several other important protocols came to be without considering the Internet.
SNA would be the first on my list of important network systems. IBM created it to provide reliable networking in mainframe, and later minicomputer, environments. Have no doubt about it's importance; for many of the most significant financial institutions in the world there was simply no alternative.
IPX would be next on my list. For most of the corporate world, IPX was their first encounter with LANs. It's heritage is traced back to Xerox. Very large corporate networks have been created based on IPX.
NetBIOS, and other useless products like WINS... Abandoned them after 2001, when he found out the Internet could exist inspite of MS.
NetBIOS hasn't been abandoned. It's alive and well. CIFS is how Microsoft has repackaged most the old Windows network protocols for the Internet. It's hard to say this and mean it, however. It's hard to even define NetBIOS. It's part API, part protocol... what it isn't is abandoned.
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for the 5 billionth time: it's not goatse, it's goatse.cx: it's a joke, pronounced like "goatsex", and if you don't pronounce it that way, the joke is lost.
yes, that's right, a goatse.cx post that's +1 informative!
slashdotted! Sorry but the site's been featured on slashdot.org and the bandwidth is through the roof. We've had to take it down to preserve the sanity of our web host. Come back in a few hours. Thanks! bglinks.net Staff 07:16 12/24/03
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