Re: Internet history

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () interall co il>]

On 21/10/2021 21:52, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2021, at 2:37 PM, Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
> > [changed to a more appropriate subject]
> >
> > On 10/20/21 3:52 PM, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote:
> > > On 10/20/21 3:26 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
> > > > Just as an interesting aside if you're interested in the history of networking, When Wizards Stayed Up Late is quite 
> > > > elucidating.
> > >
> > > +10 to Where Wizards Stay Up Late.
> > >
> > > I recently re-acquired (multiple copies of) it.  (Multiple because I wanted the same edition that I couldn't locate 
> > > after multiple moves.)
> > One of the things about the book was that it finally confirmed for me what I had heard but thought might be apocryphal which was that one 
> > of my co-workers at Cisco (Charlie Klein) was the first one to receive a packet on ARPAnet. I guess it sent an "l" and then 
> > immediately crashed. They fixed the problem and the next time they got "login:". It also casts shade on another early well known 
> > person which gives me some amount of schadenfreude.
>
> It was “LO”, and Mr. Kline sent the packets, but you got it essentially right.
>
> Source: https://uclaconnectionlab.org/internet-museum/
>
> The last picture confirms Mr. Kline sent the LO and crashed the WHOLE INTERENT (FSVO “Internet”) just a couple seconds after it started. 

Reminds me of the time the entire Swift network crashed when the capital 
of Ecuador (Quito) was added to the network. :-)

-Hank