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This is Vint Cerf, co-creator of TCP/IP (aka the internet protocol). He's better known by his actual name, isn't he?
by jonny_eh 7y ago
This is Vint Cerf, co-creator of TCP/IP (aka the internet protocol). He's better known by his actual name, isn't he?
- coldtea 7y agoBy technical audiences maybe. By the general public, Verge readers, etc, not so much. Half of the population doesn't know who the vice president is, much less Vint Cerf.
- lallysingh 7y agoWe're on Hacker News. I think we can assume audience here is fairly technical.
- PopeDotNinja 7y agoI'm smart enough and I didn't know he was the cocreater of tcp/ip. I also get him confused with Tim Berners Lee, as they are both referred to as the father of <2 different things that are use somewhat interchangeably>.