SoftwareNov 9satmux keeps 12 connections open on the ground so airplane Wi-Fi stops paying for handshakes
RetroOct 31Ethernet Is Named After the Luminiferous Ether, an Invisible Medium Einstein Called Superfluous in 1905
RetroOct 30RFC 748, an April 1, 1978 Telnet Spec, Made Servers Ask Your Permission Before Randomly Losing Your Files
RetroOct 30RFC 1925, an April 1, 1996 Internet Memo Filed as Humor, Listed 'You Can Always Add Another Level of Indirection' Among Twelve Networking Truths
RetroOct 29Jon Postel Reserved All 16 Million 127 Addresses in 1981, Two Years Before Anyone Chose 127.0.0.1 for Loopback
HardwareOct 29Apple's M6 iMac Moves to 2.5Gb Ethernet and Wi-Fi 7, and the Cheapest Model Now Starts at $1,499
RetroOct 29Wi-Fi Stands for Nothing: 'Wireless Fidelity' Was a Tagline Its Own Founder Calls a Mistake, and the Name Nearly Lost to Trapeze
RetroOct 29RFC 1149, a 1990 internet spec, sent IP packets on paper taped to pigeons' legs, and a Norwegian Linux group made it work
RetroOct 28Mike Muuss Named Ping After the Sound Sonar Makes and Wrote It in One Night in December 1983
SoftwareOct 28Net-merge, a Free Open-Source App, Spreads Your Downloads Across Wi-Fi, Ethernet and a Phone Hotspot at Once
SoftwareOct 28Homelable Scans Your Home Lab With nmap, Then Lets You Draw the Rack and Its Patch Cables Port to Port
SecurityOct 25ICANN data shows some ISPs sending every DNS query to Google, Cloudflare and a third resolver at once, and nobody can tell if it's a bug
