Internet Armageddon all my fault: Google chief
Asher Moses and Ben Grubb
January 21, 2011
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I never knew internet would be endless, says Cerf
Vint Cerf says the internet was an experiment he didn't know would be endless, leading to the looming shortage of IP addresses.
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The "father of the internet" says the world is going to run out of internet addresses "within weeks" – and it will be all his fault.
Google's chief internet evangelist, Vint Cerf, who created the web protocol, IPv4, that connects computers globally, said he had no idea that his "experiment" in 1977 "wouldn't en
