Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.

### Instruction:
Historians disagree about who should be credited as the inventor of the internet. State one of the views that supports this claim.

### Response:
The invention of the internet should be credited to computer engineers Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf for their 1974 TCP/IP protocol which is the internet's defining characteristic and made it the global interconnected network that we use today.