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1. Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2019 18:20:34 UTC Darius Kazemi

   I also just learned that store-and-forward packet switching was also referred to as "hot potato routing", which, why is it not still called that??

   https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3103.html

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   • Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2019 18:26:21 UTC Darius Kazemi

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     Paul Baran: also apparently doing the xkcd thing 50 years before xkcd

     Full paper: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3638.html

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   • Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2019 18:30:35 UTC Darius Kazemi

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     Oh wow. So that really famous centralized vs decentralized vs distributed diagram that I quote above? Well, in one of the companion papers, Baran provides this iteration on it, which in my opinion is far superior and I'm going to start using in my presentations.

     Full paper: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3097.html

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