Quotes About Cerf

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

When I joined Google, they asked me what title I wanted. I said, 'What about archduke?' They said, 'Well, that didn't meet our nomenclature. Why don't you be our Chief Internet Evangelist?' This was in 2005.

TCP/IP. Kahn and Cerf published them as a paper called "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection." The Internet was born.

Kahn and Cerf had already started planning it out: a completely rewritten version of the existing Arpanet protocol that they called TCP, the Transmission Control Protocol.