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by dsr_ 2975 days ago
In the mid-1990s, a respectable CS program would certainly have all of its graduates familiar with TCP/IP. They would know a little about routing and have built a few toy programs that implemented socket-based communication. Hot topics included "firewalls" and the race to build a gigabit-speed router. (But packet filtering at gigabit speed was quite a ways off in the future.)

The point of a technology degree had better be to teach you how to learn about new technology and experiment with it, or else a 2014 degree will be worthless in 2034.