![]() The truth is that history, like innovation, is messy. Some may scoff at the idea of conflating the web and the internet by suggesting Tim Berners-Lee, but in multiple-choice tests of the future the “right” answer will be determined by the next hundred years of how historians choose to tell that story. Others will go back further in history and tell you that Leonard Kleinrock’s work on queuing theory was the real birth. ![]() Some will tell you that Vint Cerf’s work on its underlying protocols – TCP/IP – was its true beginning. People have been fighting for decades over who invented the net. To answer that seemingly simple question you basically have two options: you can go on for hours explaining the hundreds of people and institutions that contributed crucial advancements to the way that the internet operates, or you can just say Vint Cerf. ![]()
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