IP: Kahn: The Internet is an architectural philosophy, rather than a technology

[David Farber <dfarber@earthlink.net>]

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From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff@iconia.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 21:22:08 
To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: Kahn: The Internet is an architectural philosophy, rather than a technology

Visions Of a Wild and Wireless Future

By Shannon Henry
The Washington Post

Robert Kahn, one of the fathers of the Internet, laughs when he hears people
describe the network in modern-day terms. Many, he says, see it as being
synonymous with AOL.

"There are a lot of people who think the Internet happened in the '90s,"
says Kahn. Actually, its history is far more extensive. By the same token,
present-day AOL does not begin to define the almost boundless future of the
medium. All great inventions take years to be explored and appreciated, he
says. The age of this technology has only just begun.

"It's tip of the iceberg now," says Kahn.

To get a few clues as to what may come, I went out this week to a little
brick office park in Reston to talk with Kahn, co-inventor of the TCP/IP
protocols, the language that is the foundation of the Internet.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60488-2002May22.html

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