universities in the 1980s: writing the majority of internet standard RFCs and their implementations

universities now: moving away from Microsoft cloud is really hard okay? 🥺

@eloy
I'm under the impression that it was,easier back then because there was less stuff in that area that was already built and that people relied on.
@wolf480pl absolutely, and protocol ossification is a thing
@eloy
that being said, it'd still be nice if universities could pay their graduates to work on new protocols that might not have immediate use