Remembering a time when connections were down to 40 bits per second, and the resulting algorithms still in use today! Dr Richard G Clegg of Queen Mary University London has the details.

Paper mentioned by Richard: https://bit.ly/C_CongestionCollapse
V. Jacobson. Congestion avoidance and control. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun.
Rev. 18, 4 (August 1988), 314–329.


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