A girlfriend preordered the first iPhone, and when she sent me an email, I noticed the default signature, "Sent from my iPhone."
I have since set my sig for email and anything else that allows it to "Sent via RFC1149" with a link the actual RFC.
I've gotten a few chuckles over the years.
geerlingguy 19 hours ago [-]
I guess I should hold onto the SanDisk USB sticks I bundled up for a 3TB re-test in 2023 then. Didn't realize the packets were so valuable!
noisy_boy 23 hours ago [-]
> One printed IP/ICMP "ping" packet sent by carrier pigeon per RFC 1149.
Is that the entire packet shown in the picture frame? So the price is 1k+ USD for the frame? Because anyone can type that and get it printed/framed for considerably less. What am I missing?
flufluflufluffy 22 hours ago [-]
It’s the literal piece of paper that was transported by the pigeon and it’s signed by the author of RFC 1149. A little piece of Internet history ephemera.
noisy_boy 14 hours ago [-]
Ahh, obviously. Seems the coffee isn't working for me anymore :(
elsonrodriguez 22 hours ago [-]
May I interest you in Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal Zippo lighter?
gerdesj 22 hours ago [-]
No but do you have his last Apple phone? The one with the tar stains on the mouthpiece.
sublinear 1 days ago [-]
> ... embodying the playfulness, technical ingenuity, and collaborative spirit that characterized the early Internet community.
We're now considering 2001 "the early internet community"? Some people must still have whiplash from how quickly things changed. Shopping malls were already feeling the impact of ecommerce by this point.
Also, in hindsight, the 2000s wasn't really all that collaborative compared to now.
goodmythical 2 hours ago [-]
The age of an average new mother in the US is 27 meaning that 2001 is likely before these new mothers were forming memories.
Of the current living population, roughly more than a third were born after 2001. (Are less than 25 years old).
So the average firstborn is now being born to a mother who has no memory of 2001, and a third of the population didn't yet exist.
Seems fair to characterize the time in a historical way.
dn3500 1 days ago [-]
The internet was 19 years old in 2001, and it's 44 now. To me, turning off the NSF backbone in 1995 marks the end of the early internet, because that's when commercial traffic was allowed everywhere with no restrictions. So I'm with you, but others will have different opinions.
djtango 1 days ago [-]
In 2001 downloading a video could take days and the phone ringing could torpedo that download. Playing RTS games online was like a game of russian roulette
rhplus 18 hours ago [-]
By 2001 the Internet - or specifically the web - had already bubbled and crashed. If anything, 2001 was the reset for the start of Web 2.0
excannuk 21 hours ago [-]
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etothepii 23 hours ago [-]
Is there a prediction market for the ultimate sale price?
maxrev17 21 hours ago [-]
Polymarket?
PunchyHamster 22 hours ago [-]
Should've added a stuffed pidgeon
gspr 12 hours ago [-]
Is the seller ok? It seems a bit strange to sell such an heirloom for a few thousand bucks so many years after the fact. No judgement, of course, it's his to sell for any price he wants. Just feels sad if he needs the money.
slipperybeluga 22 hours ago [-]
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A girlfriend preordered the first iPhone, and when she sent me an email, I noticed the default signature, "Sent from my iPhone."
I have since set my sig for email and anything else that allows it to "Sent via RFC1149" with a link the actual RFC.
I've gotten a few chuckles over the years.
Is that the entire packet shown in the picture frame? So the price is 1k+ USD for the frame? Because anyone can type that and get it printed/framed for considerably less. What am I missing?
We're now considering 2001 "the early internet community"? Some people must still have whiplash from how quickly things changed. Shopping malls were already feeling the impact of ecommerce by this point.
Also, in hindsight, the 2000s wasn't really all that collaborative compared to now.
Of the current living population, roughly more than a third were born after 2001. (Are less than 25 years old).
So the average firstborn is now being born to a mother who has no memory of 2001, and a third of the population didn't yet exist.
Seems fair to characterize the time in a historical way.