IP: Hackers Enjoy One Last Meal From the Master of .com Cuisine (and the food was pretty good also djf)

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave e-mail pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
>
> [I will miss Louie's -- having been a regular customer since his first
> restaurant in the Town & Country shopping center by Stanford University since
> the early 70's]
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/biztech/articles/11hack.html
>
> Hackers Enjoy One Last Meal From the Master of .com Cuisine
>
> By JOHN MARKOFF
> The New York Times
>
> PALO ALTO, Calif. -- In the mid-1970's the social nucleus of many of the men
> who created both the Internet and the personal computer industry was a
> hole-in-the-wall Sichuan Chinese restaurant across the street from Stanford
> University.
>
> Theirs was an informal network that included men like John McCarthy, a pioneer
> in artificial intelligence, and Whitfield Diffie, an inventor of modern
> cryptography, who was then a Stanford graduate student and carried custom
> chopsticks. Bill Gosper, a mathematician and legendary computer hacker, ate at
> the restaurant every evening for a decade.
>
> It has been a quarter of a century since Louis Kao opened the restaurant,
> Hsi-Nan, and was discovered by a ragtag collection of computer hackers,
> hardware engineers and network designers.
>
> <snip>
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