Word: vinting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many people--let's not pick on Al Gore here--deserve credit for creating the Internet, which began in 1969 as a network of university computers and began to take off in 1974 when Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn published a protocol that enabled any computer on the network to transmit to any other. A companion protocol devised by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 created the World Wide Web, which simplified and popularized navigation on the Net. The idea that anyone in the world can publish information and have it instantly available to anyone else in the world created...
That's why Internet telephony is a big thing that's only getting bigger. Vint Cerf, one of the Internet's founding fathers, estimates that as much as half of all long-distance traffic will go over the Net by the year 2010--and he should know, since he now works for MCI. By 1999, an estimated 16 million people will have purchased (from VocalTec and others), or downloaded for free, software that enables them to talk to fellow computer owners through their PCs, although if you go this route, you will probably also need a sound card and microphone...