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or herald of a dark age of network technology (in no way am I insulting Shannon)

there are problems that come up in web development that were solved by electrical engineers 100 years ago

Examples, if you please? I am very interested, as computer science (broadly speaking) seems to be a field in which, with higher incidence than might be expected, the ancients knew certain things better (or knew fewer worse things) than the present.

Not web development per se, but Clos Networks[0] were originally designed for telephone systems and re-emerged in large datacenter networks[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos_network

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43837.html

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