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16- VSD N° 1182 of 20 april 2000
"The cyber-marriage ": In its world first, the artist Sophie Lavaud and Fred Forest, were married on the Internet on March 18th, 1999 using a program of VR (Virtual Reality) functioning with Polemus sensors. The marriage was celebrated by Andre Santini, appointed mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux, with the American Vinton Cerf, the founding father of the Internet and the inventor of the IP system, as a witness present at the ceremony. Other witnesses present remotely: artists Eduardo Kac in Chicago, and Christophe Charles in Tokyo VSD N° 1182 of April 20th, 2000