Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf Tests Positive For Covid-19

New submitter NoMoreACs shares a report from Gizmodo: 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 HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about the U.S. response to the global pandemic. "I tested positive for COVID-19 and am recovering," Cerf tweeted. "Listen to what John Oliver has to say about our national response so far."

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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[Rosco P. Coltrane]

What would you rather have? Coronavirus or dyslexia?

Re: APRANET?

[klipclop]

Or AIDS

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[K. S. Kyosuke]

Arpanet Intrusion Detection System? I'm sure he'd like that.

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[bobstreo]

Hmmm.

could have been worse; phonetic spelling: Oprah Net.

Re: APRANET?

[NoMoreACs]

That was a cuttinpaste error. The typelexia belongs to Gizmodo; I just did not correct it, sorry!

Looking at it from all sides

[Briareos]

So does COVID-19 have it's own official twitter account yet?

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[Anachronous Coward]

So does COVID-19 have it's own official twitter account yet?

Yes [twitter.com].

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[phantomfive]

IP over COVID-19?

Stop spreading fear-mongering lies

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope he pulls through but honestly the odds will be stacked against him at that kind of age

Or if you actually look at real data, the "odds stacked against him" at 76 is just 8% [worldometers.info].

How is that "overwhelming"?

Not to mention he's sick in the U.S., which means he has even better odds than those averages.

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[cygnusvis]

Not to mention he's sick in the U.S., which means he has even better odds than those averages.

True, but some people dont want to hear it

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[quantaman]

I hope he pulls through but honestly the odds will be stacked against him at that kind of age

Or if you actually look at real data, the "odds stacked against him" at 76 is just 8% [worldometers.info].

How is that "overwhelming"?

Not to mention he's sick in the U.S., which means he has even better odds than those averages.

Even at 76 it largely depends on whether he has preexisting conditions.

But agreed, 8% is definitely not "likely lights out" though it's still a heck of a lot higher than I'd want to hear if I was Vint Cerf, or if my mother of a similar age got infected.

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[Anonymous Coward]

How so? The US health system is already breaking down. US health system has been below average for a very long time.

Sorry About the Slashies

[buravirgil]

Fark's evolved practice of a slashie, double slashie, and tripling down on a convention Berners-Lee invented to address the work of complicit and Knighted technologists.

What is wrought to defer LISP and XML for Cisco routers and trans-oceanic cables to enable the scripting kludges of babble and Babylon's Colossus?

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[Aighearach]

Keep trying Ivan, you'll get an Angles soon.

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[buravirgil]

I'll ask...how many misfires of baseless accusation such as THAT would YOU tolerate before suspecting someone of looking-glass, double-double secret agenda? I read all your posts because their informational content is high and a signal to noise ratio I admire. Whatever it is you THINK you're protecting? My dogs in this fight are as valid as any.

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[JaredOfEuropa]

Remember that Twilight Zone episode where the protagonist slowly loses his grasp of language, as his wife suddenly starts using the word "elephant" instead of "coffee", and other people around him do the same thing, getting progressively worse; the episode ending with the guy reading a child's picture book where the words are all mixed up like "apple" under the picture of a house and so on? Reading this exchange made me feel a little like that guy...

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[Aighearach]

English doesn't need to be protected from you, even if you do manage to locate it and trap it in the dark margins of a faded page. That was not my intent.

And no, I don't imagine your hidden agenda to be so visible to you that it would have agency. People are merely whatever they say, that's the nature of networking. And indeed, when the isolated echoes of your walled garden leave you expecting to be in Rhodes, even while you were still think you're in Babylon, what is left but comedy? And what comedy is lef

Has Vint been partying?

[h33t l4x0r]

I feel like if you are just testing positive now, it's because you haven't been self-isolating. At some point, getting COVFEFE-19 is on you.

Re: some ahole test positive

[NoMoreACs]

If Covid kills off all the boomers, who will the rest of you infants go to for all the answers?

  Oh, and I hope that boomer job that you are wanting isnâ(TM)t in software development; never seen any language with three equals signs in a row. Not saying there isnâ(TM)t one; but I canâ(TM)t think of a reason for such a silly syntax.

Re: some ahole test positive

[NoMoreACs]

Sorry to Reply to my Reply; but I thought I would before some wise ass beat me to it.

The only example I can find of 3 =âs in a row, comes in JavaScript, âoeIdentityâ operator. E.g:

https://howtodoinjava.com/java... [howtodoinjava.com]

However, as you can see, the GP still used it incorrectly; because the data types for boomer deaths and jobs are not the same. True both can be counted as integers, but the types of the actual elements, deaths versus jobs, are not the same.

has he got it through TCP or UDP ?

[Brane2]

Or perhaps on lover level ?
By being pinged ?
Or even tracerouted ?