Jon postel

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.

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on...

Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.

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

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