TCP/IP
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Nadella: Early Microsoft doubted TCP/IP would work over quality-of-service concerns
“Remember, the quality, like, I don't think we believed that TCP IP would work. Right. I mean, at some level, the information highway when I look at what we were trying to do was, man, this quality of service is a thing, this TCP IP, what, it just is not going …”
Khosla: Telcos said in 1996 they would never adopt TCP/IP
“They told me in 1996 when we started Juniper, they would never adapt TCP IP.”
Khosla: Public internet wouldn't use TCP/IP without Juniper Networks
“And I do believe if Pradeep Sindhu and I hadn't started Juniper, there would be no TCP IP in the public internet.”
Andreessen: Pre-1993 PCs and Macs lacked built-in TCP/IP support
“Computers, PCs and Macs up until 93, 94 didn't even come with TCP IP built into the computer, built into the operating system.”
Crypto Today Is at the Primitive TCP/IP Stage
“It's as though you open the internet, you get your TCP, it takes you a week to get your TCP IP working, you've found something you can dial up to connect, it's taken your week of work, you've got it working, you open a command line, you ping a known IP address…”
Ball: Web3 will supplement the future, not replace TCP/IP
“I'm not one of the revisionists that believes that we're going to strip out TCP IP and replace it with web three. But I do believe and am quite optimistic that parts of our future are going to be supplemented by these technologies. But I do think it's still a …”
Armstrong: Crypto won't have one dominant protocol, but several competing standards
“I think, ah, you know, now I think of it as a slightly different mental model, so it's not TCP IP that's one protocol to rule them all. There's gonna be a couple of these, you know, like Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or GIF, JPEG, PNG, if you wanna use an intern…”
Yahya: A Google-sized company cannot be built on top of Google
“It is inconceivable that you could build a company the size of Google on top of Google in the same way that Google was built on top of TCP IP.”
Benet: Modern private funding would fail to build an open internet today
“My claim is you couldn't build something as free and open, and that works as well as the internet today because no group would fund it.
and what you would end up with is a massively stunted version of something that is highly centralized and controlled by a c…”