all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

Donald Davies / internet / packet switching / Paul Baran / Rand Corporation
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Something In The Air

by mike · 2008-08-26

I get credit for a lot of things I didnâ€™t do. I just did a little piece on packet switching and I get blamed for the whole goddamned Internet, you know? Technology reaches a certain ripeness and the pieces are available and the need is there and the economics look goodâ€”itâ€™s going to get invented by somebody.

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