Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Getting the net off the ground (04 Mar 2005) Early attention to security issues might have given us a better internet today - or the project might never have taken off at all, says Robert Kahn. The net's co-inventor tells BBC Click Online how it all began, when, as an assistant professor of electrical engineering at MIT, he took a leave of absence to brush up on his networking theory. Article URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4317521.stm Read 218 more articles from BBC News sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: How Can You Tell if a Videogame is Rubbish?     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy