I just wanted to comment on how awesome this thread was, and how few people outside this group deeply grok what was discussed here. I would so like to somehow construct an educational TV series explaining "How the Internet really works" to a wider, and new audience, consisting of animations, anecdotes, and interviews with the key figures of its evolution.
While I deeply understood Len Kleinrock's work in the period 2011-2015, and tried to pass on analogies and intuition without using the math since, inspired by van jacobson's analogies and Radia Perlman's poetry, it's hard for me now to follow the argument. Queue theory in particular, is not well known or taught anymore, despite its obvious applications to things like the Covid crisis. But that would be just one thing! The end to end argument, the side effects of spitting postscript into a lego robot, what actually happens during a web page load, how a cpu actually works, are all things that are increasingly lost in multiple mental models, and in my mind many could be taught in kindergarden, if we worked at explaining it hard enough. _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel