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The Webby Lifetime Achievement Award: Former Vice President Al Gore
Setting the record straight on one of recent history’s most persistent political myths, The Webby Awards will present Former Vice President Al Gore with The Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the pivotal role he has played in the development of the Internet over the past three decades. Vint Cerf, widely credited as one of the “fathers of the Internet,” will present Vice President Gore with the award.
For those who don’t know, Vinton G. Cerf joined Robert E. Kahn’s project at DARPA in 1973 and the two of them created the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. TCP/IP is the basic scheme that makes the Internet as it currently exists possible.
