Re: IM and Presence history

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>]

Janet P Gunn wrote:
> The original Ethernet? (not really "discontinuous", but quite a big leap)

I think that Ethernet, like the Web, are actually excellent COUNTER-examples. 
Ethernet is Alohanet with carrier-sense, collision-detect, exponential backoff. 
 And, of course, it runs over wire rather than radio.

IMO, Ethernet and the Web represent (high quality) incremental work that had 
discontiguous impact.

The major part of the incremental work was systems-level synthesis of just the 
right set of features, at the right time.

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net

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