#me

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell. ↗

— Parker Posey

#dad #grandfather #lefty #me #recently

I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by standing on her nose. That would have been fatal to our hopes. ↗

— Wiley Post

#cut #emergency #exhibition #fatal #her

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

— Jon Postel

#get #how #indicates #name #route

Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing. ↗

— Jon Postel

#aspect #multimedia #our #work

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that. ↗

— Jon Postel

#bandwidth #crunch #going #got #higher

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection. ↗

— Jon Postel

#connection #good #home #i #i do

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet. ↗

— Jon Postel

#administer #also #assigned #authority #central

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

— Jon Postel

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

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#diction #fashioned #like #out #over

If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same. ↗

— Jon Postel

#charge #domain #everybody #fair #just