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World Service,1 min

How I helped to build the internet

The Conversation

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Radia Perlman is an American computer programmer often described as the 'Mother of the Internet' for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol, an algorithm which allowed early networks to cope with large amounts of data. She describes it as a 'simple hack' but it is still in use today. Image: Radia Perlman Credit: Andrew Tanenbaum

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