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‘Mother of the Internet‘ invented the algorithm behind Spanning Tree Protocol, which serves as the basis for modern internet. Radia’s STP is described by MIT as having put the “basic traffic rules into place” for the Internet.

Radia Perlman and the Spanning Tree Protocol - PID Perspectives As local networks grew during the 1980s, engineers faced a major problem. Ethernet, the dominant local networking technology, worked well on a single segment,

How much traffic passes through the online haighway every day in the world? We owe the Internet's efficiency to a woman, Radia Perlman, who invented the spanning tree protocol, the sat nav of the Internet.

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