INET Singapore 2010:

The Internet –
Past, Present
And
Future
November 18/19, 2010
Singapore
 A 14-minute
History Of The Internet

Harish Pillay
h.pillay@ieee.org
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ROSENCRANTZ AND ETHERNET
By
Vint Cerf
 All the world's a net!
And all the data in it
merely packets
come to store-and-forward
in the queues a while
and then
are heard no more.
'Tis a network waiting to be switched!
 To switch or not to switch?
That is the question.
Whether 'tis wiser in the net to suffer
the store and forward of
stochastic networks or to raise up circuits
against a sea of packets and,
by dedication, serve them.
 To net, to switch.
To switch, perchance to slip!
Aye, there's the rub.
For in that choice of switch,
what loops may lurk,
when we have shuffled through
this Banyan net?
Puzzles the will, initiates symposia,
stirs endless debate and
gives rise to uncontrolled
flights of poetry beyond recompense!

Act One - The Poems, August 1989 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1121.html

 And so in 1973
an edict from DARPA
sought means to interlink nets
which then grew from the
ARPANET of 1969
into The Internet
 Many clever ideas
were offered and
many were implemented
the sweetest of which
was
TCP/IP
An overarching
design principle
came forth to be
 be conservative in what you do,
be liberal in what you accept from others

- Postel's Law
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 The history of
The Internet
will be (re)written
in the
future
 By digital natives
and
not by the non-digital natives
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Story #1
It's 1996
 Internet
CENSORSHIP
a la
Singapore-style
 Apparently a 100 “token” sites are still
being blocked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Singapore

(nothing a little bit of maneuvering can't solve)

Story #2
 I gave a talk in 1997
About the
Future Of The Internet

http://www.scribd.com/doc/42958861/FutureOfTheInternet-September1997-HarishPillay
I spoke about the 10 years
preceding 1997
and also about the 10 years
following 1997
I'll show what
I predicted for
2007
 YES

More or less

Nope

Of course
 YES

YES

More or less
 YES

YES

More or less

Not yet
 YES

NO
(could not spell either)

BIG NO

BIGGER NO
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 Thank you.

Harish Pillay
h.pillay@ieee.org
identi.ca: @harishpillay