@brad_fidler: i can has invite to 40th anniv innernets part-ay?

reasons why @rickt needs a 40th anniversary of the internets part-ay invite (in no particular order):

• 1. my first foray into our favourite suite of protocols: jacking the UK academic network JANET to connect from Sunderland to London via X.25 and bouncing to the Cleveland Freenet using NSF-NET’s telnet relay, February 1991. [with an unnamed accomplice, whose modesty i shall spare *UK Secret Service* *coff* *he’s a frickin spy now baby* *coff*]
  2. i’ve had the same email address for 17 years: rickt [at] gnu.ai.mit.edu, which changed to rickt [at] gnu.org when AI.MIT.EDU kicked out the FSF
  3. there’s quite a bit of my elisp code within XEmacs (see my name in the Contributors section)
  4. i haz mad joonix skills
  5. i got a fair amount of press in the summer of 2002 when i (cue poetic license) took a david/goliath stand against time warner cable/NYC about their UTTER BOLLOCKS wi-fi “rules”. they very nearly sued me into oblivion [true] until i got some pickup on some big mailing lists (Farber’s IP, McCullough’s *, etc) and eventually they and I backed down
  6. my boots are always polished
  7. THE FUCKING QUEEN MAN, THE QUEEN!!!
  8. and yes, i really *do* know how TCP congestion handling works [and how, and why, and when to tweak things such as the sliding window size to squeeze out better performance/bdp for certain types of service, on certain type of connection, for certain types of hardware, etc]

see you there?

cheers,
your pal,
@rickt

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