Usually, the founders of the biggest companies and services in the world are extremely popular. For example, we all know that the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell and that the light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison. However, virtually no one knows who created the internet which is quite ironic given that it’s where most of us spend the vast majority of the time. The internet was created by two academic scholars named Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn. These two were originally professors at Stanford and MIT respectively before they both joined DARPA and started helping them create a network of networks. Before Vint and Bob joined DARPA, DARPA was using a network called ARPANET which was the standard at the time. But, Vint and Bob would create a much superior network protocol called TCP/IP that leveraged packet switching. Eventually, DARPA would adopt TCP/IP as their standard and this marked the birth of the internet. This video tells the story of how the internet was created and what happened to the internet’s founders: Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Internet Founders
0:59 - Vint Cerf
2:54 - Bob Kahn
4:45 - Creating The Internet
7:06 - Adoption
9:30 - Vint & Bob Today
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