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VINTON CERF RECOGNIZED AS THE FATHER, OR ONE OF THE FATHERS, OF THE INTERNET
I was first introduced to computers in 1958 when I visited the Semi-Automated Ground Environment computer in Santa Monica, California at the System Development Corporation. This was a three-room, tube-based computer that analyzed radar returns from the Distant Early Warning radar network in the northern part of Canada. These radars were looking for bombers coming to North America from the Soviet Union. I was fascinated by the concept of computing. Two years later, my best friend, Steve Crocker, introduced me to a Bendix G-15 paper tape computer at UCLA and we programmed it while we were still high school students. After I got to Stanford as an undergraduate, I took all the computer science courses I could and then went to work for IBM.
