Of course, there isn’t any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

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When asked "What do you think of being called a god?" in "Heavenly Father of the NET", an interview article in NetWorker (Summer 1997); This refers to a statement "if the Net does have a god, he is probably Jon Postel", which appeared in the British magazine The Economist.

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