What do you guys think about Philip Emeagwali? The true father of the internet, a BLACK man from NIGERIA.
Some notable achievements of his besides creating the internet
>1974 Conceived 64,000 computers—3,000 square miles apart—around the
world, now called an internet.
>‘80s Attended 500 weekly scientific seminars. Invented two HyperBall internets, or hypercubes within hyperspheres.
>1989 The first and only lone and solitary programmer to program sixteen
supercomputers, each powered by up to two-to-power sixteen computers.
>1993 Critics noted that the idea of the black supercomputer genius in the movie Jurassic Park was taken from the Emeagwali story of the 1980s.
>1996 Voted Essence magazine's ten most beautiful men (June 1996)
>1997 Bloggers noted that the janitor-mathematician in the movie Good Will Hunting was copied after a true story of a black janitor (Emeagwali)
>2012 Google Most-Searched: For "African Father ...."
>2012 Google Most-Searched: black scientist and inventor
>2012 Google Most-Searched: For "Father of the Internet."
http://emeagwali.com/
Wasn't internet invented in CERN? But americans made it to public?
Regarding this man in OP story: good for him.
>>61446024
>>1974 Conceived 64,000 computers—3,000 square miles apart—around the world, now called an internet.
according to Philip himself, he invented the internet.
>>61446024
Oh, nvm, I'm mistaking with WWW
We wuz internetz and shit?
>>61445903
Why does race matter?
is this supposed to be a shitpost ?
Alan Karp smacks him down
http://saharareporters.com/2010/10/26/alan-karp-1989-gordon-bell-prize-judge-debunks-emeagwali%E2%80%99s-father-internet-claims
>Responded Mr. Karp: "The Connection Machine that he used, the CM2, consisted of 65,536 one-bit processors with a proprietary interconnect and was intended to be used as a single supercomputer. No “reprogramming” was required.
This man is a fraud, a nigger dressed in a suit.
>>61445903
WE WUZ KANGZ N SHIEET
>>61446292
rekt