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Vinton G. Cerf
(23 Jun 1943 - )
American computer scientist who has been called one of the fathers of the internet, for his role as co-designer of its architecture. He was a pioneer of commercial email service.
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Science Quotes by Vinton G. Cerf (2 quotes)
Our current estimates are that in January ’98, there were 30 million computers on the Net, and about 70 million users. I’m projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
— Vinton G. Cerf
From interview with Jonathan Yenkin, 'An Internet Pioneer Finds The View Amazing As More Trails Are Cleared', Chicago Tribune (22 Apr 1998)
Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program.
Earliest use of the term Internet.
Earliest use of the term Internet.
— Vinton G. Cerf
Request for Comments No, 675,' (Network Working Group, electronic text) (1974). In Fred R. Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), 141.
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- 23 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Cerf's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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