American - Scientist | August 6, 1943 - October 16, 1998
The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis.
Jon Postel
PathKnowFirstThingsInvolvedGet
The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.
YouWantRunFairRuleDomain
All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.
DoneNiceWebInterfaceStuffUser
Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.
PeopleBuildingCareInternetYou
One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.
GoodTimeDecisionSmallComputers
That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.
InternetInterestingYouClearlyUp
The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.
WorldSomethingWebBeenWouldWide
Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
WillEveryoneWonderfulWebTen
One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.
HomeSpeedWayOverHighGet
I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.
WorkThinkInternetPicturePhone
But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there's going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.
HomePeoplePlanningSpeedGoing
Being in the limelight has its minuses.
BeingLimelight
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