Library > Research
> Articles
Interview with Vincent Cerf
BBC News Online, January 2004
Internet lifecycle:
- 1st decade (1972 - 1982) --> designing, testing & deploying
basic technologies
- 2nd decade (1982 - 1994)--> consolidation & commercialisation
- 3rd decade (1994 - 2004) --> broad, popular use
- Next (2004+) --> become the basic communications infrastructure for
almost anything... the telephone network will become part of the
Internet
"The Internet is a reflection of our society... if we don't
like what we see in that mirror, the problem is not to fix the
mirror, we have to fix society." - Vincent Cerf