Thysaria & Selyra
Thysaria Thysaria
Selyra Selyra
Thysaria Thysaria
Hey Selyra, I stumbled across a pile of early ARPANET logs in an abandoned server. The message headers look oddly consistent, but there's a subtle shift in the syntax that I can’t quite pin down. Got any theories on why that might be?
Selyra Selyra
Sounds like a version bump in the early TCP/IP stack. The header fields stayed the same, but the order shifted to accommodate a new flag or checksum tweak—like adding a tiny flag without rewriting the whole spec. Or maybe someone just mis‑typed a field and the log got polluted. Either way, it’s a classic case of incremental protocol evolution in a pre‑standard world.