The unstoppable Lloyd Wood sent me this PDF presentation, The First 31 Years of the Internet — An Insider’s View, for NTK. I’m going to stick it here first otherwise I’ll forget about it. It’s just the slides for a talk, but it stands alone as a great thumbnail explanation of a lot of the historical and future issues with the Net – including the Rise of the Stupid Network and the less-than-smooth political machinations behind the Net’s organising powers. It’s written by Bob Braden, who took over from Jon Postel as keeper of the RFCs.
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internet in a nutshell