Vinton Gray Cerf is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Robert Kahn.
Cerf in 2016
Vinton Cerf in Vilnius, September 2010
Cerf playing Spacewar! on the Computer History Museum's PDP-1, ICANN meeting, 2007
Cerf at 2007 Los Angeles ICANN meeting
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Bo
Vint Cerf
…studied under Professor Gerald Estrin and worked in Professor Leonard Kleinrock's data packet networking group that connected the first two nodes of the ARPANET, the first node on the Internet, and "contributed to a host-to-host protocol" for the ARPANET. While at UCLA, Cerf met Bob Kahn, who was working on the…
First ARPANET IMP log: the first message ever sent via the ARPANET, 10:30 pm PST on 29 October 1969 (6:30 UTC on 30 October 1969). This IMP Log excerpt, kept at UCLA, describes setting up a message transmission from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer
Internetworking demonstration, linking the ARPANET, PRNET, and SATNET in 1977
ARPANET and related projects. Figure from 1990.