RSSInternet Founding Father Joins Google
By Ed Oswald | Published September 8, 2005, 1:43 PM
The man widely known as a "founding father" of the Internet is now a Google employee. Vinton Cerf, the man who helped co-found TCP/IP, the system that routes Internet traffic, will join the search giant as Chief Internet Evangelist.
Cerf said he would continue his work in leadership roles within the Internet community including chairman at ICANN, as well as his work as a visiting scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to figure out ways to connect the Internet to outer space.
At Google, Cerf will be tasked with building out the company's network infrastructure and assisting in the development of Google's line of applications above and beyond its core search business.
Google hired Cerf away from MCI, where he spent 11 years working on networking technologies, and most recently served as vice president of technology strategy. He said MCI's proposed sale to Verizon had no bearing on his decision to leave the company.
"This medium will enjoy wider-spread use than television, radio or phones, and will ultimately expand beyond planet Earth," Cerf said. "Google has always believed in doing things differently, and I believe that places us in a unique position to help bring even the wildest Internet visions into reality."
The addition to Cerf follows a string of big-name hirings for Google. In recent months, the company has hired away executives from rivals like Microsoft, sparking a legal battle between the two.
Google is also hiring Firefox developers away from Mozilla, fueling speculation that the search giant may be working on a Web browser of its own.
and i thought Al Gore invented the Internet
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cant wait for the next google technology: beam me up scotty !!! way to google !!!
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GOING TO BE TIME THAT PEOPLE GIVE A STOP ON GOOGLE!!!!
http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
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I read quite a bit of that, I am still going to use Gmail, Google talk, google.com and news.google.com for all my mail, chat, searching and news.
And if I'm right millions of others will continue to do the same.
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Connecting the Internet to outer space?
Downloading porn from Neptune..cool!
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lol
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google 4 win
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I dont believe google will ever take over the software market from microsoft or the hardware market from apple. Google is aiming slightly higher at taking over....the internet itself. Possibly offering it's own internet in the near future? Only time will tell.
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Well, obviously.
But it will only be accessible using the Google OS. I mean, why let MS f*ck it up by not adhereing to Google's new standards?
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there was an article a few years back saying that google was buying up a lot of undeveloped fiber optic cable in the ground so I am certainly assuming they plan on becoming an isp.
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True, so many paths google can take....or maybe they'll just take them all? I'm just glad they dont have the "big-head" syndrome..yet.
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I heard it from "The Onion"! That place has all the stories the cool and what people need to hear!
To BetaNews:You shoul read there stories!
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I think this is cool. Google really is starting to do stuff. Pretty soon we're all going to have Google programs on our computer that do just about anything, and are 90% efficient.
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Google Browser
Google Groupware (Office Suite)
Google OS.
Yup, future's looking bright, indeed.
What's even more fun than spreading more inane Google rumors? Naming them.
'Goober' GOOgle BrowsER
'GooOF' GOOgle OFfice
'GooOS' GOOgle OS
There are tons more, I am sure, but....
(And did they *ever* miss out on GooIM. Ah well.)
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No, no, no! You have the Google OS name wrong... it will be a *nix variant called Goonix. :)
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lol;)
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how does google get so much money to be able to compete on this scale? Isn't just about anything they supply pretty much free?
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Scrool up. Look for "Ads by Goooooogle". There you have it.
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Huh? I don't see anything - good FF Adblocker!
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xactly.
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Well they did go public and made BILLIONs of dollars. Now they are just spending them.
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It's called Advertising. The same way Radio and TV make Billions of dollars. Plus there IPO netted them around 14 Billion in cash.
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I love this extension. I taks a couple of days to build the ad database to block, but it is totally worth it!
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It is not really Google getting paid, It is the people (like BetaNews) who subscribes to Adwords(-or somthing like that) and when ever someone click on the ad, the person who subscribed, gets paid by google!
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I thought the "founding father" of the Internet was Algore?
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Why don't you look up the whole quote and context before making that lame comment again.
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Maybe it was a joke. Might want to read the whole post in jest before making a lame anal retentive comment.
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lol
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While not the inventor of the Internet, Al Gore did play a founding role in a highly specialized field of computer arts.
If you recall Al Gore doing the Macarena, he was actually the inventor of the algorithm (a nearly imperceptible deviation from the roboto).
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One of these posts is not like the other.... one of them has a sense of humor, and one of them does not...
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Reminds me...what happened to all the jokes about GWB executing people and such? (e.g., Al vs. GWB: "The Exaggerater vs. the Eliminater")
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