{"id":227,"date":"2010-09-21T01:59:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T23:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssamir.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2025-06-04T18:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:24:04","slug":"meeting-with-the-father-of-internet-vinton-cerf-in-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssamir.com\/ar\/227\/meeting-with-the-father-of-internet-vinton-cerf-in-cairo.html","title":{"rendered":"Meeting with the father of Internet, Vinton Cerf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"227\" class=\"elementor elementor-227\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5fae415 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5fae415\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cb9cf7e\" data-id=\"cb9cf7e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5cd12c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5cd12c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/ssamir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/vinton-cerf-internet-founder.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1580\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ssamir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/vinton-cerf-internet-founder.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ssamir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/vinton-cerf-internet-founder-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-45877a81 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"45877a81\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5575e3be\" data-id=\"5575e3be\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-402a203b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"402a203b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Vinton Cerf one of Internet founders titled Father of Internet. Digitally edited from a GPL Wikimedia photo.<\/p><blockquote><p>It was a great pleasure for me to meet with one of Internet founders during ICAAN board meeting held in Cairo, March 2000. As an Internet professional and a technology fan, talking with Vinton Cerf gave me the feeling of talking to someone holy! Of course, if technology is a new religion Cerf would be one of its holy saints.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Cerf listened to a questioned &#8211; or rather complaint &#8211; I directed to Dr. Nazif (current prime minister of Egypt and the minister of Telecommunications then) about making VOIP illegal in Egypt. Later in a side talk Cerf told me &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry they can not stand against the revolution of Internet and it is just a matter of short time then they must give up&#8221; Now after more than ten years, did they really give up? In fact the political aspects of using Internet for communication is one of the big worries of authoritarian governments. They want to control and keep a big eye on all communications especially the international ones that Internet can freely offer. <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div> &hellip;<p class=\"ast-the-content-more-link\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ssamir.com\/ar\/227\/meeting-with-the-father-of-internet-vinton-cerf-in-cairo.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meeting with the father of Internet, Vinton Cerf<\/span>Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinton Cerf one of Internet founders titled Father of Internet. Digitally edited from a GPL Wikimedia photo. 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