Tagged with Hall Of Fame Highlights
How One Networking Pioneer Deployed the Sri Lankan Internet Amid Civil War
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Getting universities and governments to fund new programs is never easy. Throw in a few civil wars and even the most dogged of academics might be deterred. Not Abhaya Induruwa. While other academics in Sri Lanka were fighting for the basic “blackboard and chalk” type resources in the late 1980s, he...
MoreBreaking Rules to Break Ground in Global Internet's Earliest Days
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Teus Hagen is a self-admitted product of the “flower power culture” of the 1960s and ‘70s. And like many early Internet pioneers from that generation, it was his willingness to challenge authority – and break some rules – that played a crucial role in development of the global network as we know it...
MoreJun Murai Bridged Cultural Chasm to Bring Internet to Japan
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In Japan, Dr. Jun Murai has long been known as the father of the Internet. Outside of Japan, he has also been dubbed the ‘Internet Samurai’ for his dogged efforts to make sure Internet development was truly global. While much of the early work was centered in the West, Dr. Murai stayed in close...
MoreKees Neggers: Global Networking Requires Global Collaboration
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A key figure in the development of the Internet in Europe and the Netherlands, Kees Neggers found himself at the center of the so-called "Protocol Wars" of the 80s and 90s. Neggers’ strategy at that time was to focus on what worked, collaborating with a host of agencies around the globe with a “win...
MoreHow One University’s Networking 'Mistake' Sparked the U.S. Internet
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Thirty years ago, a visionary effort by Dr. Glenn Ricart to interconnect the computer networks of all the departments at the University of Maryland, College Park, wasn’t very well received. It was the first time computer networks on a college campus had been “interconnected,” and while this may...
MoreFour Great Sources of Internet History
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In our modern, fast-paced world of e-commerce, smartphones and social media, it’s hard to imagine – or remember – life without the Internet. In reality, it took half a century of hard work and innovation to bring the Internet about, with contributions from a global network of individuals,...
MoreInductee Gihan Dias Recalls Birth, Growth of Sri Lankan Internet
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It takes a community. Especially when bringing the Internet to an entire nation. At the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Berlin, Germany, Gihan Dias recalled the introduction of the Internet to Sri Lanka, his native country, underscoring that it was a labor of love undertaken by an...
MoreHoward Frank Looks Back on His Role as an ARPAnet Designer
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In 1969, Internet Hall of Fame inductee Dr. Howard Frank co-wrote a proposal to design the network structure for the ARPAnet. He didn’t know it at the time, but this work would cement his role in Internet history. Dr. Frank spoke recently with the Internet Hall of Fame about that project, his work...
MoreVint Cerf: IoT Likely to Fuel Next Gen Internet Hall of Fame Inductees
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One thing is clear. The Internet has improved because smartphones are able to provide access from almost anywhere, and this technology is likely to fuel a new class of Internet Hall of Fame inductees at some point in the future, according to inductee and TCP/IP co-inventor...
MoreSubject: Thank You Ray
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As news of Ray Tomlinson’s untimely passing reverberates across an Internet that he helped to create, the Internet Hall of Fame wanted to take some time to share its memories of Ray and his groundbreaking contributions to the way we communicate. In 2012, when Ray was inducted into the Internet Hall...
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