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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
Vinton Cerf

Biography

Author Profession: Inventor
Nationality: American
Born: June 23, 1943

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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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We live in a very complex world.
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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
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I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
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In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.
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