Jon Postel

I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station. ↗

— Jon Postel

#audio #calls #i #i think #internet

I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. ↗

— Jon Postel

#closest #closest thing #god #i #i think

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program. ↗

— Jon Postel

#class #computer #computer program #doing #front

One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems. ↗

— Jon Postel

#get #high #home #over #speed

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together. ↗

— Jon Postel

#cooperate #internet #lot #people #things

The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair. ↗

— Jon Postel

#fair #overriding #rule #run #want

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted. ↗

— Jon Postel

#i #predicted #quite #really #something

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer. ↗

— Jon Postel

#assistant #computer #got #graduate #graduate school

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational. ↗

— Jon Postel

#any #government #internet #issue #managed