I remember when the big carriers de-peered with Cogent in the early 2000s. The underestimated the amount of web-sites being hosted by people using cogent exclusively.
Justin Wilson j...@j2sw.com — https://j2sw.com - All things jsw (AS209109) https://blog.j2sw.com - Podcast and Blog > On Feb 17, 2021, at 10:29 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> > wrote: > > John Kristoff wrote: >> Friends, >> >> I'd like to start a thread about the most famous and widespread Internet >> operational issues, outages or implementation incompatibilities you >> have seen. >> > Well... pre-Internet, but the great Northeast fiber cut comes to mind > (backhoe vs. fiber, backhoe won). > > Miles Fidelman > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > > Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. > Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. > In our lab, theory and practice are combined: > nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown
