137: The Origins of the Internet with John Day
00:01:01 Introduction
00:01:28 COVID and the challenge of teaching
00:04:11 John’s academic and career path
00:08:14 LSI technology
00:12:13 Collaborative software development in the day
00:15:24 ARPANET’s early use
00:20:08 Atom bomb and weather simulations
00:26:55 The message-switching network
00:34:57 Pouzin
00:38:00 Every register had a purpose
00:45:15 The Air Force in 1972
00:52:10 Low memory
00:59:14 Early problems with TCP
01:11:51 The separation of mechanism and policy
01:23:25 Farewells
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