[danielmarkbruce]

Garbage. Various people worked on various parts of networking over decades and the idea that they all held some common goal is silly.

[riehwvfbk]

It's really a miracle: a lot of engineers at Intel work on some obscure RTL and a CPU comes out of this Brownian motion! And a bunch of sleep-deprived PIP avoiders at Amazon write random Java and C++ - and whoa! A e-commerce platform!