The internet’s fifth man (2013)

This was one of the best articles I&#x27;ve read lately, it&#x27;s not filled with empty prose as is the style today, it&#x27;s just filled with the history of a man who was one of several who founded the internet and no more.<p>I agree with him that we need to keep iterating the foundations of the internet and keep it open and protect against the corporate takeover. I&#x27;m not sure how best to do that so I guess all I can do is work on my small areas of influence at work and in my personal projects.

This guy invented the datagram?!<p>How in the world is this not recognized earlier? He got awarded in 2003, but that is still way too late.<p>I think we should have a list in which all stories of underdeserved computer scientists should be displayed. Alan Turing&#x27;s example is a well-known one. I still can&#x27;t believe how he was treated. But apparently he isn&#x27;t the only example of being underdeserved.

A significantly underrated progenitor. Not always recognised, and certainly not reflected adequately in the official historia recited often by Americans.

The term &#x27;fifth man&#x27;, especially in a British publication, tends to suggest cold-war spying (Anthony Blunt was number 4. As it happens, he also received royal honors, in a time when his unmasking was a closely held secret within British intelligence.)

I found this article via Wikipedia as a result of wondering why unix shells are named so.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shell_(computing)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shell_(computing)</a>

There is the website <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pouzinsociety.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pouzinsociety.org</a> that covers new network architectures, also John Day quoted in the article has written a good book about networking history and future paths in “patterns in network architecture”

unsurprisingly, he suffered politcal headwinds from the connection-oriented telco people. i wonder how visible that religious war is through the mists of time.<p>how much duplication of effort and fighting at cross purposes .. I guess up until the failure of ATM and eventual submission to voice over ip.<p>pretty sad how much effort was expended on things like gossip, and how many standards were warped in an attempt at reconciliation.

&gt;Louis Pouzin helped create the internet<p>Bing part of creating such a main element in the world it&#x27;s just crazy

&gt; Based in California and very loosely accountable to America’s Department of Commerce<p>Is this still true?