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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 2 years ago

For those like me who had no idea:

Fuzzball routers were the first modern routers on the Internet.

Six Fuzzball routers provided the routing backbone of the first 56 kbit/s NSFNET, allowing the testing of many of the Internet's first protocols. It allowed the development of the first TCP/IP routing protocols, and the Network Time Protocol. They were the first routers to implement key refinements to TCP/IP such as variable-length subnet masks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzball_router