alt Hacker NewsEh? Vint is KNOWN AS "the father of the Internet", and that's what TFA's title says.
https://web.archive.org/web/20131104212006/http://deafness.a...
> He is routinely referred to as "the father of the internet,"
There is no one else who is referred to that way. If you google "father of the Internet", Vint pops up.
https://www.inmesol.com/blog/fathers-internet/
> Vinton Cerf (Connecticut, 1943) Considered to be the founding father of the Internet.
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croes • last Sunday at 10:47 AM
The title of your second link is "The Fathers of the Internet" and Robert Kahn as co-inventor of TCP/IP protocol is also considered a father of the internet.
BTW if I google father of the internet I get Cerf and Kahn or it says "a father"
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Please don’t fulminate like this. It’s obviously a debatable matter. It’s not like we can do a DNA paternity test :)
I originally took a cue from the Wikipedia page, which says, in the opening sentence, that he is recognized as one of “the fathers of the Internet”.
I’ve since tweaked the title again to be more ambiguous, but, honestly!