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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Inventor of the Internet Technology / Father of Modern Day Networking
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:28:21 PDT, Ehud Gavron said: > Is there a person who invented the Internet, and is this person him? Well, he may have invented the idea of packet switching, but note that he was NOT one of the inventors of TCP/IP. As with most other major advances, there was no one person who did ALL the work. Calculus was a joint effort, television was a joint effort, computers were a joint effort. And the Internet was a joint effort. Look at the list of RFCs, and ask yourself whether Kleinrock would have gotten anyplace without Vint Cerf, Jon Postel, Steve Crocker, or all the OTHER people who did stuff early on.... -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech Attachment:
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