Glass in the Sea: The Engineering of the Internet

Deep End Era. Engineering with Sankalp · Oct 28, 2026 · 55m

Baran, Davies and Kleinrock; ARPANET 1969; Cerf and Kahn; the 1983 TCP/IP flag day; Saltzer, Reed and Clark; the 1986 congestion collapse, Jacobson 1988, AIMD, Reno, SACK, CUBIC, bufferbloat, CoDel, BBR; autonomous systems, BGP-4, Gao–Rexford policies, IXPs and UAE-IX; AS7007, Pakistan–YouTube, China Telecom 2010, the 2019 Verizon leak, the 2018 Route 53 hijack, Facebook's October 2021 outage; RPKI, MANRS, ASPA; Mockapetris DNS, root servers, Kaminsky, DNSSEC, Dyn/Mirai, DoH; Akamai, Open Connect, anycast; the speed of light in fibre; QUIC (RFC 9000) and HTTP/3; cable anatomy, Kelvin, the…