The Twelve Networking Truths

Re:The Twelve Networking Truths by ams6110 on Monday November 02, 2015 @12:21PM (#10493293)

(11) Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works.

I see this all the time. I'm pretty sure there have been no really original ideas in computing since the 1970/80s.

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Re:The Twelve Networking Truths by tacon on Monday November 02, 2015 @04:54PM (#10495584)

Distributed hash tables are a recent idea in networking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table#History

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Re:The Twelve Networking Truths by Gibbon1 on Monday November 02, 2015 @05:08PM (#10495679)

My dad mentioned that about automotive design, pretty much everything interesting had been invented by 1940. After that it's all new manufacturing technologies, materials, or economies of scale. Or some other technology from another field. (Good example is developments in power electronics meant electric cars were viable again after an 80 year hiatus)

Also I like that 'It Has To Work' is numero uno.

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Re:The Twelve Networking Truths by stephengillie on Monday November 02, 2015 @12:42PM (#10493510)

Everything that's new is old already.

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