The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's
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41 points by peter_hansteen 13 hours ago
> One printed IP/ICMP "ping" packet sent by carrier pigeon per RFC 1149.
Is that the entire packet shown in the picture frame? So the price is 1k+ USD for the frame? Because anyone can type that and get it printed/framed for considerably less. What am I missing?
It’s the literal piece of paper that was transported by the pigeon and it’s signed by the author of RFC 1149. A little piece of Internet history ephemera.
May I interest you in Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal Zippo lighter?
No but do you have his last Apple phone? The one with the tar stains on the mouthpiece.
Is there a prediction market for the ultimate sale price?
Should've added a stuffed pidgeon
> ... embodying the playfulness, technical ingenuity, and collaborative spirit that characterized the early Internet community.
We're now considering 2001 "the early internet community"? Some people must still have whiplash from how quickly things changed. Shopping malls were already feeling the impact of ecommerce by this point.
Also, in hindsight, the 2000s wasn't really all that collaborative compared to now.
The internet was 19 years old in 2001, and it's 44 now. To me, turning off the NSF backbone in 1995 marks the end of the early internet, because that's when commercial traffic was allowed everywhere with no restrictions. So I'm with you, but others will have different opinions.
In 2001 downloading a video could take days and the phone ringing could torpedo that download. Playing RTS games online was like a game of russian roulette
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