[HN Gopher] Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
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Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
Author : morphle
Score : 71 points
Date : 2024-03-31 19:29 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| jandeboevrie wrote:
| Not Dan Lynch of podcast fame. (Linux Outlaws, FLOSS weekly)
| k8sToGo wrote:
| Why are there many people dying the last few days? I am reading
| hacker news every day, but it feels like there's at least a death
| note or two a day currently
| morphle wrote:
| The number of people dying will increase two score and ten
| years [2] after a baby boom [1] like the United States post-war
| baby boom.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boom
|
| [2]
| https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2090%3A10...
| endymi0n wrote:
| also:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion
| ShamelessC wrote:
| How is that bible verse relevant exactly?
| morphle wrote:
| To explain threescore years and ten.
|
| A better link would have been https://www.oed.com/dictionar
| y/threescore_adj?tl=true#:~:tex....
| throwaway74432 wrote:
| If you were in your 30s when the modern internet was born, then
| you're in your 70s now. The early pioneers and contributors are
| old now.
| brcmthrowaway wrote:
| I can't imagine myself not being "with it" and having some
| knowledge about current technology.. Do you think any of the
| early modern Internet pioneers know about LLMs? (Besides John
| Nagle)? Or does the brain biologically give up on processing
| new information?
| convolvatron wrote:
| I met and worked with alot of the early internet pioneers
| and they were some of the most clever and insightful people
| that I've ever met. I assure you that barring a serious
| medical condition they all maintain at least a basic
| awareness about the state of computing.
| dsr_ wrote:
| LLMs are a frequent topic of conversation on at least one
| ex-employees-of-an-internet-pioneer mailing list, yes.
| brcmthrowaway wrote:
| What is the mailing list?
| AlbertCory wrote:
| 1. What makes you think any of the Internet pioneers are
| not "with it" as you put it?
|
| 2. What makes you think you know how you'll feel in 50
| years? You cannot possibly predict that.
| morphle wrote:
| _Dan Lynch's Love of 'Brilliant Complexity' Fuels Early Internet
| Development, Growth_
| https://www.internethalloffame.org/2021/04/19/dan-lynchs-lov...
|
| _A Brief History of the Internet_
| https://arxiv.org/html/cs/9901011
|
| _Daniel C. Lynch interview_
| https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10271712...
|
| _2019 Internet Hall of Fame: Dan Lynch_
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowVk_kW8dQ
|
| _The Past and Future History of the INTERNET_
| https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/253671.253741
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| This is all over the place.
|
| Update link and title to the actual news or merge
| (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/technology/daniel-c-lynch...)
|
| Share IHOF link within
| neonate wrote:
| https://archive.ph/XDYgb
| BaculumMeumEst wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAG7Y8WGDcI
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/technology/daniel-
| c-lynch...
| 1letterunixname wrote:
| I'm reminded troublemakers are the ones who often change history
| and make huge piles of money but are seldom stable marriage
| prospects. On the other hand, those whose who are too timid make
| great marriage prospects but are seldom remembered. There's not
| much middle ground in the agreeableness trait, except to use
| disagreeableness with discretion.
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