The uucp network is the one that grew, tcp wasn’t added to the unix networking code until after the uucp network covered the world. By 1996 conversion of all these nodes to tcp was complete and the tcp/ip network was finally as big as the uucp network. TCP had done more harm than good to the network and as that suffers so does human progress. Inefficiencies and stupidities in our digital infrastructure impedes human progress here on earth and in the outer colonies which are supposed to exist now but don't. The garbage from Microsoft and Apple, Sun and Cisco and other crooks can not be accused of helping the net they helped themselves and the net was delayed. Guys that leave no fingerprints and move in the shadows coopted the domain name system and now forced their limitations and UG administered governance over the entire network, not just the tcp part. It can not be said they did now know I very explicitly made both Canadian and American governments very aware of this. They didn't give a shit, their job was more important than what people from the net thought should be done with the thing they'd built with zero government help. I know. I was there. I saw it, I watched it happen and it was vile. That's the biggest problem with tcp, the us government's bait and switch. They handed out domain names and let anyone use them free without saying what the rules are them imposed new rules retroactively every year. The domain reform that was supposed to come from ICANN via the white paper process (1) devolve nsi (2) do something about trademarks and 3) new top level domains) actually made the system worse and more expensive than it was before and the joke there is we started all these because of a unilateral infinitely large domain fee that was de facto unilaterally shoved through by Vint Cerf while on the FNCAC which suggested the NSF have it's contracter begin charging fees when it didn't want to. Look at the 1099's of the i* empire (which are online) to see how that went. This was the IAB "Montreal revolt" plan Sean Doran railed about, where the idea for the ISOC to run the net for money an idea so abhorrent to reasonable people the founder of ISOC quit.

Now I know you tcp guys see things differently but the 1996 figure is unarguable and of course you’d think tcp started the internet but it absolutely did not. While the tcp’ers were ftping files around calling it email, uucp had two network apps the entire word used; these came to speak tcp later.

The reason uucp grew so quickly was uucp had zero government in involvement. Tcp had the AUP which Steven Wolff tore up in the late 80s while admitting to me later he should have liberated the DNS too.

No shit. The decentralized governance of UUCP and no government control was now gone and the US government was now telling us all, whether we came from the UUCP side or the TCP side what names we can and cannot use when we assign strings to finds nodes on the network.

In this sense TCP was the worst fucking thing to ever happen to the network and if tcp had never existed we’d still be having this conversation but we’d probably have better apps and faster transit: tcp is just the worst junk ever and this web thing is jst 1989 Bell Labs Runoff/Roff with a couple of extra features. It as unilaterally decides and a quarter century later the numbers aren’t, it’s the worst of reed in all of history.

You know what ? Fuck you people. tcp is so broken you’ll always have DDOS and security problems and as famed Cryptographic mathematician DJ Bernstein has pointed out the math works out such that the more effort is placed on security the words the ddos problem gets. Today I read financial service companies are being held hostage by people who demand bitcoin or they’ll be ddos’d to death and their secrets exposed.

If tcp actually fucking worked neither of these would be possible.

And I’ve had it, I quit, I’m walking away from the rubbish that is TCP and will dust off the uucp maps and start a conversation about wimax using terms like “free” (as in beer), “free” (as in speech) and “fast” and “secure” and “robust” all things you can’t say about tcp. Ou pride of the 1980s protocol is finished and by that I don’t mean it’s dead and going away I mean it’s done. Just leave it there and don’t break anything and we’ll work around you and show you how it’s done properly from the ground up.

The missed opportunities and political layer constraints with tcp have crippled innovation of the network further than anybody could imagine and both US political parties did this from the Dems Magaziner to the Rights Rove the both interfered in ways that would not be legal if the weren’t for the government. It’s not getting better it’s getting worse and more stupid daily and it’s time to walk away and make something we can actually use and lave V1.0 behind and the historical footnote it is, so long and thanks for all the kittens.

Cabal Unix: there is no Cabal Unix.