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A New Way to look at Networking - 1 hour 20 minute video of a talk at Google given by Van Jacobson who is
...best known for his work in IP network performance and scaling; his work redesigning TCP/IP's flow control algorithms to better handle congestion is said to have saved the Internet from collapsing due to traffic in 1988-1989.This is an incredibly interesting talk with a long and accessible first section that traces the birth and history of packet based network communications. This is the best thing I've seen explaining the birth of the internet.
Cargill's quandry: "Any design problem can be solved by adding an additional level of indirection, except for too many levels of indirection."