{"id":24118,"date":"2026-07-24T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=24118"},"modified":"2026-07-24T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:05:17","slug":"thank-you-dr-cerf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/24\/thank-you-dr-cerf\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Dr. Cerf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Correlation is not causation,&#8221; and I hope that Internet pioneer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vint_Cerf\">Vint Cerf<\/a> announcing <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/30\/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring\/\">his retirement from Google<\/a> has nothing to do with my return. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news brings to mind a couple of fun memories:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Semi-legendary story: Some Googler was chilling in what he thought was a conference room named \u201cVint Cerf,\u201d only to have the real man walk in and politely shoo him out of what was actually his office.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Nack (@jnack) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jnack\/status\/1523400893059584005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Correlation is not causation,&#8221; and I hope that Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announcing his retirement from Google has nothing to do with my return. \ud83d\ude09 The news brings to mind a couple of fun memories: Semi-legendary story: Some Googler was chilling in what he thought was a conference room named \u201cVint Cerf,\u201d only to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24150,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions\/24150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}