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by wmf 53 days ago
He means the Internet runs on the Internet Protocol Suite and not the "superior" OSI Protocol Suite (that people under age 50 have never heard of because it failed).
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The OSI model still gets taught in networking classes to people in their teens and 20s.
That was baffling a quarter of a century ago and it's even more baffling now.
And because of that, badly reinvented mostly through HTTP