--- title: The "Father of the Internet" is finally retiring | daily.dev description: Vinton Cerf, co-creator of TCP/IP and Google's chief internet evangelist since 2005, is retiring at age 83. The announcement came at the Open Frontier... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring-yqtidp2qs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The "Father of the Internet" is finally retiring | daily.dev og:description: Vinton Cerf, co-creator of TCP/IP and Google's chief internet evangelist since 2005, is retiring at age 83. The announcement came at the Open Frontier... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring-yqtidp2qs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YqtIdP2Qs.png og:image:alt: The "Father of the Internet" is finally retiring og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The "Father of the Internet" is finally retiring **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Vinton Cerf, co-creator of TCP/IP and Google's chief internet evangelist since 2005, is retiring at age 83. The announcement came at the Open Frontier conference, where Cerf shared a panel with other prominent computer scientists. Beyond the retirement news, Cerf offered a notable prediction: the rise of AI agents will force a return to formal, standardized protocols for inter-agent communication, arguing that natural language alone is too ambiguous for precise agent-to-agent coordination. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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