There are many "fathers" of the modern Internet. It depends on what development in the evolution of the Internet that you focus on as to whom you confer the title father. But certainly one of the contenders for the father designation would have to be... O It is Mark Zuckerberg who created Facebook. Until FB came along, public use of the Internet was not widespread. He gave incentive to use the Internet and a platform for doing so. O Paul Baran. He's the one who took Leonard Kleinrock's idea of packet switching and figured out how to actually packet switch by converting all information into binary code - using 1s or Os. So, the color red, and your face, and the sound of an opera singer singing a Wagner opera differ only in the order of the 1s and Os. Otherwise, all that information is made out of the same thing: 1s ad Os. It was Steve Jobs. Without his invention of the iPhone, the Internet would never have been used by ordinary people like you and me