This is a great article on some of the things that we take today for granted. Imagine if we had run into the Coronavirus crisis in the 1980s, and even the libraries would have closed! It would have been quite a different experience, and none of us would be able to do the work-from-home that we are now doing.
But, the really interesting bit is the technical architecture that allows the network to take such immense growth and swings in usage patterns, as it has in the last few decades, and is now experiencing rapidly during the crisis. The distributed, bottom-up collaborative design, adaptivity, support for wildly different traffic situations, and hard work & plenty of equipment to support the massive use of Internet today all played a role. We need to build on this even further.
New York Times: "Your Internet is working. Thank these Cold War-era pioneers who designed it to handle almost anything"
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