Paul Vixie
Internet engineer and early internet innovator who helped build the Palo Alto Internet Exchange and later served as vice president at AWS Security, discussing network infrastructure and history.
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Jan 28, 2026 • 4min
Infrastructure lessons from the dot-com bubble
Paul Vixie, an Internet engineer who helped build the Palo Alto Internet Exchange and later led AWS Security work, tours Menlo Park and recounts the dot‑com fiber rush. He describes the frantic buildout of fiber, the bankruptcies that followed, and how dormant infrastructure later powered search, social, streaming, crypto, and AI. Short history and big tech consequences.
