tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16150876.post8855934905924538286..comments2023-10-14T11:58:11.385-04:00Comments on Ron Schuler's Parlour Tricks: Cerfing the NetRon Schulerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897764795703441103noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16150876.post-76128314386456406332012-06-11T16:33:08.899-04:002012-06-11T16:33:08.899-04:00I worked at MCI when Vinton Cerf was there as a VP...I worked at MCI when Vinton Cerf was there as a VP. I've always assumed that the term "surfing" the internet was a respelling of his last name, well, for obvious reasons. <br /><br />Any truth to that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16150876.post-29727494896454096402009-02-01T16:06:00.000-05:002009-02-01T16:06:00.000-05:00I realize this is a very old post - but if anyone ...I realize this is a very old post - but if anyone who finds this is interested, there's a fascinating book called "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet" by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, which covers this subject in great detail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16150876.post-91505023816851644332007-06-27T20:24:00.000-04:002007-06-27T20:24:00.000-04:00On March 2007, Alessandro Sorbello of New Realm M...On March 2007, Alessandro Sorbello of New Realm Media http://www.newrealm.com.au interviewed Dr Vinton Cerf who was in Brisbane Australia to present ‘Internet, Infinity and Beyond’ excerpts from Dr. Cerf’s presentation are available online at New Realm. Mr Sorbello http://www.AlessandroSorbello.com posed questions to Dr. Cerf relating to the development of the Internet and its role in today’s society and what we can expect in the future. The interplanetary internet is set to change the face of communication not only on our planet, but also in the way we communicate with our technology in space.<BR/>Dr. Cerf replied when asked a question by Mr Sorbello, “I can speculate about one other thing a large number of senses are going to be on the network, billions of these things scattered a letter the world in parks, building stinky wearing ties its in offices at that time in order to keep track for example what's going on in the world around us and global warming is a big issue in some of the things that we need to know are going to be derived from major sensory networks which a part of the network but also you can imagine the systems are aware of this building like it and when here who is in here and how should I adapt my behaviour to be more effective for the people who are in here that kind of responsiveness is possible as the world in which we live in becomes more aware of us as opposed to how we have to adapt to it.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16150876.post-89285982452817848342007-06-23T22:51:00.000-04:002007-06-23T22:51:00.000-04:00On 7th March 2007, Alessandro Sorbello of New Rea...On 7th March 2007, Alessandro Sorbello of New Realm Media http://www.newrealm.com.au interviewed Dr Vinton Cerf in Brisbane Australia to present ‘Internet, Infinity and Beyond’ excerpts from Dr. Cerf’s presentation are available online at New Realm. Mr Sorbello http://www.AlessandroSorbello.com posed questions to Dr. Cerf relating to the development of the Internet and its role in today’s society and what we can expect in the future. <BR/><BR/>Dr. Cerf: So you can actually see some of the side effects. What happens when you get a billion people all connected together and able to interact? The first thing you notice is thanks to Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web is an enormous avalanche of information coming into the network. The uses and consumers of information have now become the producers. <BR/><BR/>And so when you look at things like Wikipedia you discover that its content comes from anywhere in the world from anyone who has a piece of information that may be of use to others. What amazed me is the number of people who want to share their information and they are not looking for payment, they are simply looking for credit or they simply want to contribute. <BR/><BR/>The interplanetary internet is set to change the face of communication not only on our planet, but also in the way we communicate with our technology in space.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16150876.post-55051510142933914392007-06-23T21:33:00.000-04:002007-06-23T21:33:00.000-04:00Happy Birthday, Sir -- thanks for your comments, c...Happy Birthday, Sir -- thanks for your comments, corrections and amplifications -- and for your time. I put in a brief note about Mr. Kleinrock last year (see <A HREF="http://rsparlourtricks.blogspot.com/2006/06/lo-indeed.html" REL="nofollow">Lo, Indeed</A>). Rarely if ever has anything of importance been achieved by a single solitary human being.Ron Schulerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12897764795703441103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16150876.post-45900808630762139582007-06-23T21:05:00.000-04:002007-06-23T21:05:00.000-04:00Hi, it's vint cerf. there are a few corrections I ...Hi, it's vint cerf. there are a few corrections I would like to make in the blog about the history of the Internet. DARPA actually contracted with Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) of Cambridge, MASS, to build the ARPANET. UCLA was the site of the first packet switch (called an "IMP" or Interface Message Processor). UCLA's role was to model and measure the network's performance and also to help lead the development of the first host-to-host protocols. Len Kleinrock led that modeling and analysis effort as principal investigator at UCLA. Steve Crocker, working for Kleinrock, was the leader of the protocol work, eventually going to ARPA himself for a time. Bob Kahn was a principal architect of the ARPANET and worked at BBN. I was a programmer working at UCLA also in Kleinrock's group, and helped to design the host protocols and also to write software to assist in the measurement of network performance. I went to Stanford in late 1972. Bob Kahn left BBN to join ARPA about that time and essetially came up with the idea of designing an architecture to allow multiple packet networks to be integrated together. He came to Stanford in the Spring of 1973 and we worked until the Fall of that year to design the basic TCP protocol and the architecture of the Internet. <BR/><BR/>Ray Tomlinson of BBN developed the first networked electronic mail and codified the use of the "@" symbol to separate mailbox from host identifier in email. The development of the Internet was a highly collaborative and international effort from its early roots and continues to be so today.<BR/><BR/>VintAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16150876.post-23272069804663252222007-06-23T09:16:00.000-04:002007-06-23T09:16:00.000-04:00How come you don't mention Al Gore?How come you don't mention Al Gore?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com