Dan Lynch, one of the key people involved in building the Internet and ARPANET before it, has died at 82.

Dan was director of computing facilities at SRI International, where ARPANET node #2 was located and he worked on development of TCP/IP, and where the first packets were received from our site at UCLA node #1 to SRI, and later at USC-ISI led the team that made the transition from the original ARPANET NCP protocols to TCP/IP for the Internet. And much more.

Peace. -L

https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/dan-lynch/

#auspol #furry

Sometimes I wished we had more weird stories of people unfamilar with internet culture unknowingly create furbait

We're asking you to donate what you can on this Giving Tuesday to UNRWA, the UN agency leading the humanitarian response in Gaza.

1.7 million Gazans have been displaced by the Israeli government’s military response to the horrific Hamas attacks on October 7. Over half of all housing units have been destroyed or damaged. The territory’s fragile sewage system has all but collapsed, sparking fears of epidemics when medicine is in short supply. https://getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/5119865

🍉 There is a long history of South Asian American activists standing with colonized people under attack.

I recently came across this 1947 newspaper clipping on the South Asian American Digital Archive website.

The article is from the papers of ex-Gadharite Godha Ram Channon.

It describes him teaming up with Black, Greek, Communist, and labor organizers in San Francisco to protest Dutch attacks during the Indonesian National Revolution.

(cont…)

#Desi #SouthAsianAmerican #AsianAmericanHistory