David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ dies at 91
When Farber started his career in the mid-1950s, at Bell Laboratories, computers were practically islands unto themselves. If they communicated at all, they talked by means of a teletype or punch card reader down the hall. Since then, thanks in part to his work, the realms of communication and computation merged into that one powerful glue for society that is the internet.
