[32877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Packet Loss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Stuart)
Fri Dec 15 16:04:30 2000
Message-Id: <200012152100.eBFL0V787755@hi.tech.org>
To: "M. David Leonard" <mdl@equinox.shaysnet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:28:21 EST."
<Pine.3.89.10012151448.A17710-9100000@equinox.shaysnet.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:00:31 -0800
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart@mfnx.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Young people these days have it too easy, Why, when I was a lad,
> we had to stay up all night slaving over cuneiform tablets, then load
> them into reed baskets on the backs of donkeys bright and early the
> following morning for the trek to the abacus room. And none of that
> binary or decimal stuff, either - it was straight sexagesimal. But try
> to tell the young folks of today was it used to be like and they ignore you.
At least *you* had *donkeys*. We carried *our* cuneiform tablets in
baskets on our *backs*, through the snow, uphill both ways.
Stephen
