I was trying to get a hold of him for years. People who knew him kept saying they'd get me in touch, never did.

His name pops up a lot during the 60s and 70s as an author on numerous articles about networks, often regarding many competing, now defunct alternative networks to the Internet.

Examples of scans I personally made: https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/farber-datamati... and https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/farber-datamati...

He's one of those people where you go through archival industry journals and are like "oh look there he is again"

For instance, SNOBOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL

IP-Asia met every week via Zoom. Several other people whose names appear in the same literature frequented it too. Pop in tonight for the final session?

I had no idea. I can't find out where this is. Can you send me a link

His mailing list was public. No harm in sending the link to the meeting for last week, I guess. You can find the Zoom meeting coordinates there; they were reused every time. https://ip.topicbox.com/groups/ip/T2c0d41d801eaa76c-Mbdfe983...