I was digging through old files and came across my copies of the proceedings of the 6th and 7th ACM Sigcomm meetings - 1979 and 1980.
Lots of familiar names - Farber, Postel, Pouzin, ...
I remember the collective gasp at the 7th in Mexico city when Yogen Dalal revealed that Ethernet would have 48-bit addresses. (It was also a day or so after a big earthquake and the buildings were a bit fractured.)
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@karlauerbach I must admit that in that timeframe my foresight would have failed me. How can you possibly need more than 32-bits of address???
I never imagined that everyone on the planet would have a wireless phone / computer in their pocket, and networked appliances at home. Hahaha. I probably would have resisted the very idea of it.
