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Peter T. Kirstein

British computer scientist

Died when: 86 years 202 days (1038 months)
Star Sign: Gemini

Peter Thomas Kirstein CBE FREng DFBCS FIET FInstP (20 June 1933 – 8 January 2020) was a British computer scientist who played a role in the creation of the Internet.

He put the first computer on the ARPANET outside of the US and was instrumental in defining and implementing TCP/IP alongside Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.

Kirstein is "often recognized as the father of the European Internet".

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