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Vint
Cerf
Vint Cerf is called the "father of the Internet."
He earned this nickname as one of the co-authors of Transmission
Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
that allowed ARPA to connect various independent networks together to form one
large network of networks-the Internet.
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