Scaling the Office Romance
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“A mass in movement resists change of direction. So does the world oppose a new idea.” — Nikola Tesla, The Future of the Wireless Art (1908)▻https://medium.com/media/f89dc8b350927055ba2d3038f790b982/hrefIn 1982, with the push of a button, Vint Cerf shut down the entire network. In doing so, he was making a clear point to each and every Military Researcher and Computer Scientist in the United States and around the world: TCP/IP was going to be THE standard way of communicating over the internet, whether they liked it or not.In 1982, there were just 400 Ivy-League and Military-grade computers on the DARPA-funded network. Today, there are 7.6 billion computers on the internet.Later that year, TCP/IP Co-Inventor Vint Cerf pushed the button again. This time around, he shut down the entire network (...)