Remembering a time when connections were down to 40 bits per second, and the resulting algorithms still in use today!  Dr Richard G Clegg of Queen Mary University London has the details. 

Paper mentioned by Richard: https://bit.ly/C_CongestionCollapse 
V. Jacobson.  Congestion avoidance and control. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. 
Rev. 18, 4 (August 1988), 314–329.
 

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