Quick and Neat article about the founder of TCP/IP. Some priceless quotes in it.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Infotech/Internet__Telecom/99_of_Internet_applications_lie_in_the_future/articleshow/msid-1653936,curpg-1.cms
Actually it surprises me that it has been able to expand as much as it has been. The backbone of the original system was 50 kilobits per second; today the backbone is running at 40 Gigabits per second. In terms of scale we have gone from 4 computers on the Arpanet to 1 billion machines on the network. The number of people on the network has gone from 50,000 to a billion. I don’t know of any system that can handle this kind of expansion.