A Maze of Twisty, Turney Passages - Routing in the Internet Swamp by David L. Mills
Channel: Mark Pellegrini
Date: 2016-05-26

A Maze of Twisty, Turney Passages - Routing in the Internet Swamp by David L. Mills

A personal history of the Internet from someone who helped create it.  

"Mills was the chairman of the Gateway Algorithms and Data Structures Task Force (GADS) and the first chairman of the Internet Architecture Task Force.[4] He invented the Network Time Protocol (1981),[5][6] the DEC LSI-11 based fuzzball router that was used for the 56 kbit/s NSFNET (1985),[7] the Exterior Gateway Protocol (1984),[8] inspired the author of ping for BSD (1983),[9] and had the first FTP implementation. He has authored numerous RFCs." 
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills

Presentation given on May 26, 2005, at the University of Delaware. Slide set available here: 
https://web.archive.org/web/20160309212150/https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/brief/goat/goat.pdf