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The internet.

More specifically, he is generally credited as the designer of the IP ("Internet Protocol"), along with the associated TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), though several others on the team also contributed non-trivially. These basic protocols form the foundation of the network "language" that allows large numbers of computers to communicate easily.

He also help invent MCI Mail, the first commercial electronic mail system which used TCP/IP and the Internet to send messages.

Also overlooked by many is his large role in founding the Internet Society, one of the main organizations which has helped coordinate the technological evolution of the Internet, and helped insure the Internet did not devolve into a tangled mess of incompatible (or proprietary, locked-in) protocols.

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