Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)

Why are there many people dying the last few days? I am reading hacker news every day, but it feels like there’s at least a death note or two a day currently

Re: Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)

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Post by morphle » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 8:27 PM UTC

k8sToGo wrote: post #6

Why are there many people dying the last few days? I am reading hacker news every day, but it feels like there’s at least a death note or two a day currently

The number of people dying will increase two score and ten years [2] after a baby boom [1] like the United States post-war baby boom.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boom

[2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2090%3A10...

Re: Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)

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Post by morphle » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 8:29 PM UTC

Dan Lynch’s Love of ‘Brilliant Complexity’ Fuels Early Internet Development, Growth https://www.internethalloffame.org/2021/04/19/dan-lynchs-lov...

A Brief History of the Internet https://arxiv.org/html/cs/9901011

Daniel C. Lynch interview https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10271712...

2019 Internet Hall of Fame: Dan Lynch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowVk_kW8dQ

The Past and Future History of the INTERNET https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/253671.253741

Re: Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)

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Post by throwaway74432 » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 8:30 PM UTC

k8sToGo wrote: post #6

Why are there many people dying the last few days? I am reading hacker news every day, but it feels like there’s at least a death note or two a day currently

If you were in your 30s when the modern internet was born, then you're in your 70s now. The early pioneers and contributors are old now.

Re: Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 8:32 PM UTC

This is all over the place.

Update link and title to the actual news or merge (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/technology/daniel-c-lynch...)

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