On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Scott Brim <scott.brim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It was the pictures of cats that made people want to use it.
On Mar 14, 2014 5:38 PM, "Dave Crocker" <dcrocker@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Better still is that among its various contributions to Internet growth was that it provided a second, recognized backbone, forcing the development of BGP, which permits multiple independent backbones. As such it moved away from a monopolistic backbone model.Well, first it led to non-hierarchical routing, when we introduced potential loops (and HP disappeared from the ARPAnet briefly, until we realized what we had done). BGP was needed later when the AS-level topology became even more complex.
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