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Ask Dr. Vinton Cerf About the Internet

Posted by Roblimo on from the more-honorary-degrees-than-some-people-have-socks dept.

If anyone can claim to have "invented the Internet," (or at least to have co-invented it) it's Vint Cerf, who never makes this claim himself. But he's certainly had a hand in shaping most of what we call "the Internet" today, and is now working on taking the Internet or something like it to Mars and other planets. A Google Search for "Vint Cerf" brings up thousands of responses, so you should have no trouble coming up with a unique, interesting question for him. (As is usual with Slashdot interviews, we'll send 10 of the top-moderated questions to Dr. Cerf about 24 hours after this post, and publish his answers shortly after he gets them back to us.)

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  1. Re:Just Imagen by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Maybe it wouldn't do this when I tried to follow the link:

    Warning: Too many connections in /prod/www/virtual/kerneltrap.com/www/htdocs/includ es/database.mysql.inc on line 7 Too many connections

    My, my, the slashdot effect strikes again...

  2. outerspace.net by chef_raekwon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey Cerf

    on working on sending the internet to mars:
    Can we call it Terranet?
    or better yet, Terra.net?
    interstellar.net?
    federationstarship. net?
    startrek.net?
    marsuplink.net?

    outernet?

    --
    We're like rats, in some experiment! -- George Costanza
  3. VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION by graybeard · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm having trouble logging on to the Internet. Should I upgrade to AOL 7.0?