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Submission + - Vint Cerf Has Covid-19, says Watch John Oliver (gizmodo.com) 1

NoMoreACs writes: Gizmodo reports the following sad news:

Tech pioneer Vint Cerf, one of the co-creators of the modern internet, has tested positive for covid-19, according to a tweet Cerf sent out Monday morning.

The 76-year-old tweeted out a clip from HBOâ(TM)s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about the U.S. response to the global pandemic.

âoeI tested positive for COVID-19 and am recovering,â Cerf tweeted. âoeListen to what John Oliver has to say about our national response so far.â

Cerf helped create the modern internet in the 1970s while working at UCLA with other pioneers like Bob Kahn and Leonard Kleinrock. Cerf worked on packet switching for the APRANET under Kleinrock and TCP/IP protocols with ARPA (now DARPA), the plumbing that makes the internet function.

DARPA tweeted its support of Cerf, telling him to get well soon.

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