Re: IM and Presence history

[Marshall Eubanks <tme at multicasttech.com>]

On Nov 29, 2006, at 8:16 AM, Brian Rosen wrote:

> > However, what this subthread demonstrates is
> > that they were conceptually an incremental change, not a giant,
> > discontinuous, intellectual leap.
> >
> > I thought we all knew that.
> Oh, I agree, we knew that.   There are very, very few discontinuous
> intellectual leaps in our part of the universe.  It's hard to name  
> one that
> happened in the past decade or two.
>
> Can we name any discontinuous intellectual leaps of late in computer
> networking?  Now that I think about it, forget "of late", have  
> there EVER
> been any?

circuit switching -> packet switching

Some people have never recovered.

Regards
Marshall

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