> I had never heard of Jon Postel before.

Reading this makes me a bit sad and reminds me that I'm older now and lucky to have grown up during the golden age of the Internet.

Mm. I’m an older millennial, so solidly in the Web 1.0 generation, but never had the chance to use the internet before the web took off. I missed BBSs too, which were big where I’m from (probably bigger than the pre-Web internet, outside universities at least). I was fourteen when Postel died in 1998. My earliest memories of internet use are probably from ’96 or so, using library or school computers after classes.