“Father of the Internet”
Vinton Cerf developed the internet protocols that make the Internet. Cerf artistic is for his work on the Snuper Computer project, ARPANET, and Network Working Group (NWG). Vinton Cerf, “father of internet”, in addition developed Telnet, TCP, and IP. Currently Cerf is chief Internet strategist, responsible for internet technology for MCI WorldCom. Cerf is currently working on the Interplanetary Network (IPN).
At UCLA, as a student, Vinton Cerf worked on the Snuper Computer project. The Snuper computer was a computer designed to be remotely to observe the execution of programs on other computers. This project ignited Cerf’s interest in Computer Networking. Later on in 1968, he set up another project called ARPANET. ARPANET stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The government in the 1960’s and 1970 has funded the network. Originally, the design project was to be a communication system that would survive a nuclear war. The first......
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