All Jon Postel Quotes
The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
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But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.
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A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.
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All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.
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That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.
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Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.
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Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
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I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.
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In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.
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Years ago when you?d go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.
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The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.
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