Post #2431167
2026-02-18 21:39 UTC
@elb@social.sdf.org @florian@bsd.network I remember talking with a random person on the ICANN conference in Helsinki (back in summer of 2016), and asked how long he has been on the Internet. He said he started to work with DNS back in 1984, and was still working on it in 2016. It is inspiring how nice many of the long time builders of the Internet are.
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@elb@social.sdf.org 2026-02-18 21:49
@autiomaa@mementomori.social So true. It's been years since I was involved with the IETF/etc, but so many just really competent and knowledgeable people were happy to give me the time of day when I was a snot-nosed twenty-year-old. Sally Floyd (RIP) and Van Jacobson happy to discourse on congestion control, Randy Bush and Geoff Huston on routing and autonomous systems, etc. I really believe the Internet we have today (whether we're doing the right things with it or not) is because they shared experience. @florian@bsd.network