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Internet Architect has Died

March 28, 2011, 11:36 AM

Sorry to scare the lefties who probably went in mourning - but this was not Al Gore but Paul Baran.

Paul Baran, who dreamed up what became the internet’s fundamental architecture, an idea so out-of-this-world 50 years ago that AT&T wouldn’t deal with him, has died. He was 84.

Internet Architect Paul Baran Dies at 84

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/internet-architect-paul-baran-dies-at-84/

Paul Baran, who dreamed up what became the internet’s fundamental architecture, an idea so out-of-this-world 50 years ago that AT&T wouldn’t deal with him, has died. He was 84. The New York Times reports that Baran died on Saturday from complications of lung cancer. Baran was working at the famed RAND corporation on a “survivable” […]
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