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Jon Postel, an Uncommon card
Jonathan Bruce Postel was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 107
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 35,000
Power 107 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is known principally for being the editor of the Request for Comment document series, for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority until his death.
- During his lifetime he was referred to as the "god of the Internet" for his comprehensive influence, Postel himself noted that this "compliment" came with a barb, the suggestion that he should be replaced by a "professional," and responded with typical self-effacing matter-of-factness: "Of course, there isn’t any 'God of the Internet.' The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do…
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jon Postel article was read about 35,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jon Postel (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Carl Malamud, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.