Attribution
The true origins of this list are somewhat mythic, being largely based on
the collective experience of many hackers in the early days of building
distributed systems. Peter Deutsch is the one who first enumerated them
as a clear way to frame thinking about why distributed systems are
fundamentally different. He says the following on his
home page:
I first published the "8 Fallacies of Networking"
internally while working at Sun Microsystems Labs in 1991-92. (The
first 4 were originally described by either Bill or Dick Lyon; I added
the other 4.)
I'm pretty sure that Tom
(Pugs) Lyon had a hand in the list
too.
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