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Builds / operates carrier, cloud, & enterprise networks; curious about novel approaches at scale. I enjoy learning about technology: new, current, and legacy.
The "Mother of all Demos" got so many things right, but what happened to the chord keyboard?
2^5-1=31 native character input. Pair w/ 2 additional buttons (on a mouse or another input device) for 2^7-1=127 characters.
Mr. Whiskers pondering his to-do list, which mostly consists of sitting in this position and looking out the window.
A look back at the original design document for #BGP. IETF conference lunch, 1989. Kirk Lougheed, Cisco; Yakov Rekhter, IBM. Of note, the napkin calls the protocol "Boundary Gateway Protocol".
more: https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-two-napkin-protocol/
The Two-Napkin Protocol
In 1989, Kirk Lougheed of Cisco and Yakov Rekhter of IBM were having lunch in a meeting hall cafeteria at an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) conference. They wrote a new routing protocol that became RFC (Request for Comment) 1105, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), known to many as the “Two Napkin Protocol” — in reference to the napkins they used to capture their thoughts.