Re: Who is the father of Internet?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

Udhay Shankar N rearranged electrons thusly:

> At 02:23 PM 12/26/2000 +0530, M K Saravanan wrote:

> >In one of my Internet lectures, one student asked "who is the father of
> >Internet".  I said "Vint. Cerf".   But he said that he was told that
> >Dr.Leonard Kleinrock is the father of Internet.  When i did a google search,

> "A great idea has many fathers" -- any number of people can claim to be one 
> of the "Fathers Of The Internet" including Vint Cerf, Bob Metcalfe, Dave 

The problem is that there are enough (rather shady) quizzers such as Derek
No'Brains^W O'Brien and his ilk ... they love to ask a question and fit their
answers to it (most _real_ quizzers avoid the usual "father of this, inventor
of that" stuff ... ;)

That, however, is the birth of this controversy, and several such ;)

> Farber and Jon Postel among many others.
> My personal feeling is that this kind of exercise to determine the One True 
> Father of the net is pointless.
 
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