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Vint Cerf's Disruption-Tolerant Networking

An anonymous reader writes "Net pioneer, Vint Cerf, talked this week about the space internet (the Interplanetary Internet), and an interesting 1994 April Fool's email he penned as a Request for Comment [1607]. The thread involves a reverse time capsule from the year 2023, but covers Cerf's side interests in Shakespeare. Since 2004 marks the 30th anniversary of publication of the first paper on the Internet, his views on the future of the net and Interplanetary Internet seem to have morphed somewhat into delay and disruption tolerant networking because of high demand for videoconferencing, Voice-Over IP, and multimedia."

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  1. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    post

  2. Sit down, Legolas! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like earthworms deep fried in motor oil.

  3. What's the flattest surface to iron your jeans on? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A white girl's ass!

  4. What do you call 300 white men chasing a black man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The PGA tour.

  5. Have you heard about the Jewish sports car? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It stops on a dime, then picks it up.

  6. Being a true American, I can suggest one solution: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BOMB THEM.

  7. What do you call a white man with a sheep under ea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What do you call a white man with a sheep under each arm?

    A Pimp.

  8. Hey.. by rune2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd take that "measly" 50 PFLOP system anyday! (insert Beowulf Cluster joke here)

  9. carbon dating by lsd4all · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ya' know, this future email got me thinking. Is there a way to carbon date something that has existed yet?

  10. What is black, white, and rolls off the end of the by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What is black, white, and rolls off the end of the pier?

    A nigger and a seagull fighting over a chicken wing.

  11. Re:Al Gore Created the internet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod parent up Funny.

    Not because it's funny, but just because s/he is clearly new to Slashdot, and it would make him/her feel better.

  12. s145hd07 7r0115 in tEh h1k4u53! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  13. Re:Rocks - Disruption proofing for TCP by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the whole point, dullard, is that one uses the title information to elucidate what the 'click here' is.

    i.e. for more information click here

    Though I wa sonly using that as an example. One should phrase one's content to suit the hypertext model.

    We have plenty of information on dullards.

    It is also useful where one uses an image



    in this way, one can combine a bit of eye candy while providing the required information should images be unavailable

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