The Internet took almost 40 years to consume all IPv4 addresses
24 Sep 2009
On October 29th, the Internet will turn 40 years old. Marking this occasion, IEEE has held an international event in Los Angeles, USA to mark its own 125th anniversary and the upcoming birthday of the former ARPAnet project, currently referred to as the Internet. At this event many renowned scientists and Internet experts spoke on today’s main Internet-related topics.
One of those invited at this special event was Vinton Cerf, worldwide famous scientist who practically built the Internet with his hands. The co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol suite, ARPAnet lead scientist and ICANN founder, Mr. Cerf has been recently involved with the Internet Engineering Task Force on the IPv6 protocol and with Google as Vice President and Internet Evangelist.
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