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September 08, 2005
Google Hires Al Gore?
When I saw this article, "Google hires 'father of the Internet'...", I wondered... Wow! I can't believe they hired Al Gore!!? :-) Riiiight. No they didn't hire Al. They did however, hire one of the real pioneers of the internet, Vinton Cerf, who was instrumental in developing the TCP/IP protocol suite that we now all take for granted. This is actually the holy grail of any technology... to become completely transparent. I wonder when the last time a teenager sent a message over AIM and thought, "Man!, the characters I just types were encoded into TCP packets before being transmitted... ". Gotta love it. Also gotta love Mr Cerf's new title at Google... "Chief Internet Evangelist". Sweet.
Posted by harris at September 8, 2005 11:36 PM
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