Programming Throwdown, Episode 138, The Origins of the Internet with John Day.

Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody.

Really excited about this episode.

So, you know, the internet is actually kind of an amazing thing that even, I would say,

Patrick and I largely take for granted.

I think at one point, there was a networking course.

I never took it actually,

but Patrick, you might have taken it. So I know very little. I know that there is all these layers,

there's like an IP layer and a TCP layer, but very superficial. It just seems like dark magic and

wizardry that I can just reach out and connect to just about any public server

on the whole web. It's pretty remarkable. Never actually, to be honest, understood how it works all the way

down. And so really, really excited that we have John Day, who's a professor at Boston University, who's going to really dive in

and explain to all of us, like, how this actually works, how it came about, you know, and what were

all the sort of design points made along the way and that whole evolution. So thank you so much

for coming on the show, John. Thank you.

Cool.

So, you know, we always kind of start by talking to people about, you know, the pandemic.

I mean, I know we're kind of hitting the tail end as far as, you know, let's say like

lifestyle disruptions.

I don't know what the data is on the actual pandemic itself.

But so how did you kind of weather all of that?

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