Who is Bob Kahn?

Bob Kahn is like the main builder who helped create a giant toy box that lets all your toys talk to each other from far away.

Imagine you have a set of building blocks, each one can send messages to another block, no matter where they are. That's kind of what Bob Kahn did with something called the Internet. He worked on making sure that different computers could understand each other and share information easily, even if they were in completely different places.

How He Helped Build the Internet

Think of the Internet like a big playroom full of kids, each kid has their own toy. Bob Kahn helped create rules so that any kid could send a message to another kid’s toy, no matter how far away they were. This was super important because it made sharing and playing with others much easier.

He didn’t just build the Internet, he made sure it could grow and change over time, like how you can keep adding more toys and kids to your playroom!

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  3. He made sure messages could travel from one computer to another without getting lost

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