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Quiz -- Question 6 of 15

President Clinton awarded these two men the U.S. National Medal of Technology.   

 

 1997: President Bill Clinton awards these men medals for their computer networking contribution to the Internet.

These two men designed TCP/IP networking protocol, the way we beam HTML pages around the Web.

 

A. Joel and Ethan Coen
 
B. Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn
 
C. Leo Tolstoy and David Suzuki
 
D. David Beckham and Bob Blair
 


In 1974, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn proposed a "protocol" (rules for electronic transmission between computers) called "TCP" (transmission control protocol).

When this was later combined with "IP" (Internet procotol), the TCP/IP suite became the electronic standard for beaming HTML pages around the Internet.

Today, Dr. Vinton "Vint" Cerf is called the "Father of the Internet", while Tim Berners-Lee is the "Father of the World Wide Web"




More on Vint and Robert here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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