Expanding the Legacy
Expanding the Legacy
He had absolutely no idea that his creation would be hijacked by big business, encourage tunnel vision, and spread misinformation. Vinton Cerf just wanted to build a medium that allowed for the sharing of useful information. To that end, Mr Cerf and his colleague Bob Kahn at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency came up with both the Internet Protocol (IP) and the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in the early 1970s: technologies that underpin – and made possible – the internet.
It wasn’t meant to be this way. The domain of a mere handful of tech giants, today’s internet is a far cry from the almost anarchic virtual space – a chaotic online universe that encouraged diversity, innovation, and – yes – revolution, or at the very least, the good-humoured subversion...
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