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David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91

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By Peter Wayner
| The New York Times Verified
David J. Farber, a gregarious professor of computer networks who was sometimes called the “grandfather of the internet” because of the ultimately groundbreaking students he trained, died on Feb. 7 in Tokyo. He was 91. His son Emanuel said the apparent cause was heart failure. Professor Farber had been teaching at Keio University in Tokyo since 2018. When Professor Farber started his career in the mid-1950s, at Bell Laboratories, computers were practically islands unto themselves.
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David J. Farber, 'Grandfather of the Internet,' Dies at 91

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By Peter Wayner
| Breaking One
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Human Error Cripples the Internet

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By Peter Wayner
| The New York Times Verified
July 17, 1997 Human Error Cripples the Internet By PETER WAYNER ompanies, computers and people started disappearing from the Internet at 2:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday after a human error at Network Solutions Inc., the company with the primary responsibility for maintaining the master list of domain names, corrupted Internet addresses around the world.
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