Tagged with Hall Of Fame Highlights
Dan Lynch's Love of 'Brilliant Complexity' Fuels Early Internet Development, Growth
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The roles Dan Lynch has adopted throughout his journey to help develop the commercial Internet have spanned from government scientist to Internet evangelist to startup founder. But in order to understand that arc, you first have to understand who he was as a kid. “I was a pretty good student,”...
MoreAn Unassuming Giant in Her Field: Radia Perlman's Work Speaks Volumes
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By Dan Rosenheim Let it be said, loudly and unambiguously, that Radia Perlman’s unparalleled contribution to the existence of a functioning Internet is a product of her remarkable intellectual gifts. The creator of important innovations that make modern computer networks reliable and easy to manage...
MoreInternet Hall of Fame Nominations Open Until April 23!
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Do you know an extraordinary person who has made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the global Internet? Today, the Internet Hall of Fame ...
MoreThe Internet's Magic Number
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One is a magic number for Elise Gerich. A 2019 inductee to the Internet Hall of Fame, Gerich was a key player in the 1986 launch of the National Science Foundation’s NSFNET, which facilitated early networking...
MoreHow One Inductee is Classifying the Internet’s Infrastructure
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Dr. Kimberly Claffy, a 2019 inductee into the Internet Hall of Fame, couldn’t attend the induction ceremony itself due to an unusual circumstance: She’d recently broken some bones mountain biking. Today, that youthful spirit...
MoreCrowdsourcing “Aha” Moments to Understand Digital Divide
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Larry Irving did not have just a single “Aha” moment when attempting to expand the Internet’s reach. He had dozens. “Every time I talked to somebody, their ‘aha’ moment became my ‘aha’ moment,” he said in a ...
MoreHow Africa's Regional Internet Network Started With One Driven Intern On a Quest for a LAN
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The year was 1995, there was no Internet yet in West Africa, and Jean Marie Noagbodji was frustrated. For two years, the small computer company he headed, CAFE Informatique, had tried to create a network for business and banks in Lome, the capital of Togo. It had...
MoreOne Inductee Fears Government Oversight of Internet
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Klaas Wierenga could do without Big Brother peeking over his shoulder while surfing the Internet. A 2019 inductee into the Internet Hall of Fame, Wierenga developed ...
MoreLarry Irving: An Early Force Behind Narrowing the Digital Divide
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When Larry Irving was asked to join the Clinton Administration’s Internet policy team, he’d never been on the network – or even used email. But as a minority born in New York City’s housing projects whose first job on Capitol Hill was with the late Rep. Mickey Leland, a tireless champion for the...
MoreInternet Pioneer Marvels at Progress of Younger Generations
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Ermanno Pietrosemoli is glad to see future generations putting his work to good use. A 2017 inductee into the Internet Hall of Fame, Pietrosemoli is one of the founders of the Escuela Latinoamericana de Redes, an...
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