Death of an early internet implementor

Rest in peace Dave Walden. He was an early ARPANET and Internet pioneer and Iwas incredibly helpful to me when I set out to blog about the first 365 RFCs. A kind and funny man.

Obituary: https://www.olsonparent.com/obituary/David-Walden

His wonderful website: https://walden-family.com/dave/

The book he edited on the history of BBN: https://walden-family.com/bbn/

He was also an important figure in the TeX community: https://walden-family.com/texland/

Like 3 May 2022 at 23:45 | Open on friend.camp

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Darius Kazemi

Death

I wanted to visit him very much but covid got in the way of that. I'm very sad I'll never get to meet him in person.

3 May 2022 at 23:46 | Open on friend.camp

Darius Kazemi

Death +

In reaction to this news, Dave Crocker over on the internet-history mailing list noted:

"Our community [of early internet implementors] has had quite an array of personalities that can be challenging. Dave wasn't one of them."

Couldn't have put it better myself.

3 May 2022 at 23:53 | Open on friend.camp