Academic
Toru Takahashi (Internet)
Japanese Internet advocate (1941–2022)
- Life
- 1941 – 2022
- Born
- January 15, 1941
- Died
- December 20, 2022
- Nationality
- Japan
Toru Takahashi was a Japanese computer network researcher and businessman. He was credited with contributing to the spread of the Internet into Japan and the rest of Asia in the 1990s and was a pivotal figure in the early commercial development of the Internet. For this reason, he was often called the "Father of the Internet" in Japan.
