Who is Peter Kirstein? He provided the Queen with the first e-mail in her name and appointed him commander of the British Empire
Peter Kerstein, a British computer scientist who has been widely recognized as the father of the European Internet, died on Wednesday at his home in London at the age of 85 due to a brain tumor.
Professor Kerstein played a pivotal role in connecting computer networks in the old way. In 1982 his relationships with American scientists working in the field of emerging computer networks led him to adopt their standards in his London research laboratory.
These standards were called the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol, or "TCP / IP", which enables various computer networks to exchange information.
Professor Kerstein adopted the Technical / Intellectual Property Program (TCP) despite the competing protocols that were put forward at that time by the International Standards Groups.
Fenton J. Cerf, an American internet pioneer who was working on Internet Protocol development and a colleague and friend of Professor Kerstein, "Peter was the great Internet champion in Europe ... with skill and ingenuity, he resisted enormous pressure."
Kerstein was very eager to develop computer networks, giving Queen Elizabeth II her first email address that carried the letters "HME2" in 1976 during the first launch of the Internet at the Communications Research Center in Malvern, England, where the Queen became one of the first heads of state to send An email, and in 2003 the Queen granted him the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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