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David Isenberg
Personal blog · isen.com/blogeconomicspolitics
David Isenberg's personal blog at isen.com covers economics and politics. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Rise of the Stupid Network”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links David Isenberg's 1997 essay "The Rise of the Stupid Network", which describes dumb-network concepts and AT&T's view of controlling the network. It is cited in net neutrality and telecom debates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Rise of the Stupid Network2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-03-21
What Hacker News says?
Actually, there was about a 15-year period where many people didn't think PCs were good for anything, because they had access to much better (shared) computers. That's the context where http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/bitty-box.html comes from. See also http://canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html#book8 . Throughout the 01980s PC Magazine worked hard to convince business decisionmakers that IBM PCs weren't mer…
Comment linking /stupid.html
on “Microsoft’s original source code”Submitted Broadband without Internet ain't worth squat as a story · 12 points
HN discussionAn interesting reversal of the networking philosophy described in “the Rise of the Stupid Network” http://isen.com/stupid.html
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on “What the f*** is the edge?”Submitted Rise of the Stupid Network as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA classic from 1997: http://www.isen.com/stupid.html [original release May 1997, by David S. Isenberg of AT&T Labs Research that explains several dumb network concepts]
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on “Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes”Submitted Verizon doesn’t know what Verizon knows as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"The Rise of the Stupid Network" (1997) is the quintessential essay on this topic, and unfortunately still relevant today. http://www.isen.com/stupid.html
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on “Hurricane LTE-U: Don’t Let Wi-Fi Get Blown Away”Submitted Bogus WSJ Story on Net Neutrality as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAT&T has been making claims like this since long before the Internet. "Rise of the Stupid Network" is a classic essay on AT&T's perspective of controlling the network http://www.isen.com/stupid.html
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on “AT&T claims ‘strong’ net neutrality would ruin the Internet”Submitted The Dawn of the Stupid Network (1998) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think "Rise of the Stupid Network" is still as applicable to AT&T as when it was written in 1997. http://www.isen.com/stupid.html
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on “AT&T Exec Calls Netflix’s Reed Hastings “Arrogant” For Net Neutrality Post”
